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Images of Jane Austen

Nigel Bruce

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Images of Jane Austen
Watercolour of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra (1804)

These are the best-known images of Jane Austen...

Watercolor by Cassandra Austen around 1810, in the National Portrait Gallery.
Wikipedia: a depiction of Austen from "A Memoir of Jane Austen" (1871) written by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, and based on the sketch up top by Cassandra. All subsequent portraits of Austen are generally based on this.