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Austen portrait to be auctioned

20 avril 2007, 00:00

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A rare and contentious portrait of the esteemed novelist Jane Austen is due to go on sale in New York. It has always been accepted by relatives as a picture of the writer but scholars are divided over the true identity of the young woman.

Its estimated auction price is $500,000 (£250,000) and it is being sold in America rather than Britain. The full length oil portrait of a girl in a white dress is being sold by a descendant of the writer.

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