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Cassandra Austen is also credited with having created two paintings of her sister. One, painted in 1804, is a back view of Jane seated by a tree. The other, an incomplete frontal portrait dated circa 1810, [3] was described by a family member as being "hideously unlike" Jane Austen's real appearance.
- 9 January 1773, Steventon, Hampshire, England
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- 22 March 1845 (aged 72), Portsdown Lodge near Portsmouth, Hampshire
Portrait of Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, ca. 1810. Growing up, the sisters engaged in many activities together for the purpose of education and leisure. While Jane became known for her writing, Cassandra developed an interest in drawing and watercolor painting. These are two of Cassandra's portraits of Jane in watercolor and pencil, dating ...
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Cassandra Austen. 1773 – 1845. Cassandra was three years older than her sister Jane, and the two were best friends all their lives. Cassandra was pretty, practical and sensible, and although she is often pictured as the more solemn of the two sisters, Jane at least thought she was extremely funny. In a letter from 1796 she wrote:
The only authenticated picture of Jane Austen is a small pencil and watercolor sketch made by her sister, Cassandra, on display in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Cassandra also painted a watercolor of her in a blue dress with her face hidden by a bonnet. Austen’s nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh commissioned a watercolor by James ...
Jan 30, 2015 · After Austen’s death in 1817, Cassandra kept her manuscripts until her own death in 1845. For more than a century thereafter, the notebooks were nearly forgotten and quietly made their way down the family tree, until they ended up in the hands of Cassandra’s great-granddaughter’s niece, who sold them at Sotheby’s in July of 1977.
Nov 15, 2010 · Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen, pencil and watercolour, circa 1810. The portrait is also unique in another way. It is the only portrait within the gallery made by an amateur. All the other portraits are of famous politicians, the lords and ladies of the time, rich merchants and industrialists, and the powerful.
Mar 24, 2018 · She allegedly looked a lot like her elder brother Edward (later adopted by the Knight family). For a time, Cassandra and her younger sister, the famous Jane, were sent to a relative to be taught, first in Oxford, then in Southampton. Both girls were brought swiftly home when an infectious disease broke out in Southampton.
