Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?

12:35 am - 01:35 am, Sunday, August 16 on BBC Four (9)

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Martha Kearney meets biographer Paula Byrne, who believes she has found a painting of the author lost to the world for almost two centuries. Art historians and Austen experts scrutinise the portrait and perform forensic analysis as they look to confirm its validity, and Kearney debates how it could change people's views of the writer and what it might reveal about her life

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