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Jane Austen

(1775-1817), Novelist

Regency Portraits Catalogue Entry

Sitter associated with 5 portraits
Few English novelists have commanded such popular affection and critical respect as the author of works including Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1816). Austen was a writer of refinement and charm, whose honesty and sense of irony helped shape some of the supreme masterpieces of nineteenth-century fiction. The daughter of a clergyman, she never married, and lived quietly with her family in Hampshire and later Bath. Her six main novels made ordinary domestic life a compelling subject for fiction, drawing on her own observations of genteel social relations, courtship, and the position of women during the Regency. Austen compared her writing to painting literary miniatures on ivory.

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Possibly Jane Austen, by Unknown artist - NPG 3181

Possibly Jane Austen

by Unknown artist
hollow-cut silhouette, circa 1800-1815
NPG 3181

Jane Austen, by Cassandra Austen - NPG 3630

Jane Austen

by Cassandra Austen
pencil and watercolour, circa 1810
On display in the Room 18 miniature case at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3630

Jane Austen, published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen - NPG D1007

Jane Austen

published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen
stipple engraving, published 1870
NPG D1007

Jane Austen, published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen - NPG D1008

Jane Austen

published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen
stipple engraving, published 1870
NPG D1008

Jane Austen, published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen - NPG D13873

Jane Austen

published by Richard Bentley, after Cassandra Austen
stipple engraving, published 1870
NPG D13873

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