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Jul 1, 2011 · Mrs. Henry Rice continues the fascinating history of the Rice portrait with the Rev. John Morland Rice, and Admiral Sir Ernest Rice. Thank you for joining us again! Morland Rice, the sixth owner of the portrait was the fourth son of Elizabeth Austen and Edward Royd Rice, who must have been devoted, producing fifteen children in all.
The Rice Portrait is the only oil painting of Jane Austen in existence. Owned by the Rice family, descendants of Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, it is a unique and beautiful portrayal of a young Jane Austen, painted in 1789, when she was writing her earliest works. In these pages we present the substantial and ever-growing body of ...
Jan 28, 2019 · The Rices have often argued that the family lore identifying the portrait’s subject as Jane Austen was passed down by people with no reason to lie. The Foster/Sutherland article suggests that a single liar was involved, and that his lies may have duped later generations of sincere, if self-deceiving, Austen descendants – possibly including Fanny Caroline Lefroy.
- Deborah Yaffe
The 'Rice' Portrait In previous posts I have been looking at the Byrne portrait of Jane Austen but in this one I thought I would share some research I have carried out into what is now known as the Rice Portrait – once erroneously known as the “Zoffany Portrait” - believed by its owners to be a portrait of Jane Austen when she was about 12 or 13, painted by Ozias Humphry.
Jul 4, 2011 · They then acquired the tiny ‘scratch’ by Cassandra Austen, and at this time announced in the Times that they possessed the only portrait of Jane that could be authenticated, which the Rice family felt to be an unnecessary crack at them, as they had a perfect right to keep their Great-Great-Aunt Jane if they wished to.
Sep 11, 2011 · Here, in her own words, is the history of the Rice Portrait, by it’s owner, Anne Rice: This story, and the portrait of Jane Austen started in the summer of 1788 when George Austen took his wife, and his two young daughters, Cassandra, aged 15, and Jane aged not quite 13 years old to visit their Great Uncle Francis at his him called The Red House in Sevenoaks, Kent. Francis Austen was an ...
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The history of the portrait of Jane Austen now in the possession of Morland Rice her Gt nephew. Old Dr Newman, fellow of Magdalen years ago told him that he had a portrait of Jane Austen the novelist, that had been in his family many years. He stated that it was done at Bath when she was about 15 & he promised to leave him (Morland Rice) the ...
