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 ...

Henry Rice, a retired farmer from Kent and descendant of Jane Austen's brother, Edward, has offered the portrait to the gallery and been turned down, the Daily Telegraph reported. He said that the ...

His late stepfather was a direct descendent of Austen's brother and his mother Anne ... about why he believes the note confirms the portrait is of Jane Austen. Here is part of their conversation.

The author of a forthcoming biography on Jane Austen believes she has unearthed a previously undiscovered portrait of the novelist ... of the writer's father and brothers, and enlisted the ...

The author of a forthcoming biography on Jane Austen believes she has unearthed a previously undiscovered portrait of the novelist ... of the writer's father and brothers and enlisted the help ...

Neither of the Austen sisters ever married and they spent long stretches living together, in some cases with one of their brothers and his family. After Jane died in 1817, aged 41, Cassandra ...

called the portrait on the bank note a “19th-century airbrushed makeover.” She told the BBC, “It makes me quite angry, as it’s been prettied up for the Victorian era, when Jane Austen was ...

Older brother James Austen once wrote a poem ... [Illustration: “‘Pride and Prejudice’ by Jane Austen – portrait of Mr. Collins proposing to Elizabeth. Chapter XIX.” ...

The portrait's provenance is unknown; on its back someone wrote: "Miss Jane Austin," spelling the last name with an "I," as Austen herself did on her 1816 royalty check for her novel Emma.

The portrait, measuring 5ft by 3ft, passed down to Mr Rice through generations of the family Jane Austen's brother, Edward. It only came to prominence in 1884 when it featured as the frontispiece ...