Jane Again?

[poliphilo]

O.K. guys, so what do we make of this?

It's a portrait of an unidentified woman by Jane Austen's friend and admirer the Rev James Stanier Clarke. 

Is it Jane? 

All the evidence in its favour is circumstantial, but there's nothing about it that rules it out of court.

Stanier Clarke was the Prince Regent's librarian and Jane visited him at Carlton House. Obviously she would have dressed up for the occasion.

Comments

[oakmouse]

Interesting! I'd like to see a higher-res image of it. Can you point me to the location whence came your image?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The image I've used comes from here- http://www.artworksgallery.co.uk/book.html

And there's an essay with a higher resolution black and white image here- http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/Ray-Clarke.pdf

[oakmouse]

Thank you!

I must say this one has higher claims to authenticity than the other. Very interesting.