Jane Austen portrait sells at Sotheby’s for £135,000

The portrait of Jane Austen by James Andrews that will appear on the new £10 note in 2017 was offered by Sotheby’s as the star turn of their traditional end-of-year English literature and history sale.

Regarded as one of the pictures with the closest connection to the novelist that exists, the posthum…

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