According to The Guardian, two unheard of, undiscovered portraits of the Divine Miss B, have surfaced. The bottom one has sold, but the other is for sale - wouldn't it be wonderful if it was her? Better than the flattened and amateur work by Branwell, as held at the National Portrait Gallery. Curiously, in the same month a re-discovered Jane Austen portrait has also surfaced.
I wonder if these portraits are true or just our wanting them to be, makes them so?
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There's a lot in wanting them to be true. They are of course lovely renditions of beautiful women, especially the first. And is the because she looks younger?
What's that saying about beauty being in the eye of the beholder? But isn't it also true that we love to have an image of our beloved authors?
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