To celebrate the author's 250th birthday, a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City features ...

Christie's auction house today will put up for sale what is believed to be the only oil painting of Jane Austen. It's being sold by one of the writer's descendants, Henry Rice. The Rice Portrait ...

A watercolor portrait of Jane Austen sold for $270,600 at an auction at Sotheby’s London on Tuesday. The painting, done in 1869, is considered by many scholars the most accurate likeness of the ...

Simon also argues that Henry Austen, Jane's brother and literary executor, did not provide the portrait for the 1832 edition of the novels. And Simon's trump card is "dry and dusty art history ...

A portrait of a young girl that some believe is the only known painting of English novelist Jane Austen failed to sell at auction Thursday. Christie’s said no one offered the owner’s minimum ...

‘Who is Jane Austen?’” Part of a private collection, the work by Andrews will be one of six Austen portraits joined together for the first time. The 1869 oval-shaped likeness is based on the ...

Spirited (and gossipy) letters and manuscripts at the Morgan Library and Museum puncture myths about the writer’s rise to literary fame.

Autograph letter to Cassandra Austen, Godmersham, June 20–22, 1808.

The curators take T&C behind the new “A Lively Mind” exhibit at the Morgan Library & Museum—and why the public remains so ...

A show featuring never-before-seen family portraits is part of a year-long program celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen's birth. Cassandra's hand drawn copy from of a plate from an instruction ...