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Description Portrait of Jane Austen, from the memoir by J. E. Austen-Leigh (1798-1874). All other portraits of Austen are generally based on this, which is itself based on a sketch by Cassandra Austen
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Source A Memoir of Jane Austen by her nephew J. E. Austen-Leigh, Vicar of Bray, Berks. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, 1870
Author From a watercolour by James Andrews of Maidenhead based on an unfinished work by Cassandra Austen. Engraving by William Home Lizars.
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Cassandra Austen  (1773–1845)  wikidata:Q2505245
 
Cassandra Austen
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Cassandra Elizabeth Austen
Description British painter and watercolorist
Date of birth/death 9 January 1773 Edit this at Wikidata 22 March 1845 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Steventon Edit this at Wikidata Chawton Edit this at Wikidata
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