Although there is an amateur sketch of Jane Austin, not enough image of this well-known English novelist is available.

Although there is an amateur sketch of Jane Austin, not enough image of this well-known English novelist is available. The reading claims that the girl in a recently founded painting is Jane because of some pieces of evidence. The lecturer cast serious doubt on the claim by asserting some reasons widely explained hereunder. First of all, although the Austin family has endorsed that this is her picture, the lecturer found it unconvincing because of the fact that when they used her portrait, she had been dead for 65 years, so they had not actually seen her to be able to recognize. Secondly, it is true that there is a resemblance between the girl in the portrait and Jane in her sister's sketch, but it does not prove that they are the same person; because there were a lot of her relatives, who were teenager, at that time, and they were like Jane -for instance, her distant niece. Lastly, in spite the fact that the painting's style links to Ozias Humphrey, the canvas, which the picture is painted on, had not been sold in London when Jane was a teenager, which means it had probably painted later. All in all, considering the evidence in the passage as well as claimes in the lecture, the picture could belong to one of Jane Austin's relatives but unfortunately not her.