From the Jane Austen Centre
Bath
How Melissa Dring created her forensic Austen Portrait
In 2001, Melissa Dring was commissioned by David Baldock, the Director of the Jane Austen Centre, Bath, to produce a new Jane Austen portrait using forensic methods, as she might have appeared duri...
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A New Jane Austen Portrait by Melissa Dring
Here's a new Jane Austen portrait so many years after her death. So what did the author really look like? Forensic artist Melissa Dring takes up a commission by David Baldock to use contemporary e...
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