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

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Is it Jane? Who knows. But given the relationship between the two, and the date of the painting, there seems to be no obvious reason why it can't be. The strong colors surprise me, but that's true irrespective of the woman in the portrait -- and probably in part due to how many of the plates I've seen being in black and white.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like to think of her as a woman of fashion, strutting her stuff in Carlton House.