John Miers (1758-1821)

Details

John Miers (1758-1821)

Mrs. Charles Austen, profile to left in simple dress and with upswept hair
on plaster heightened with bronze, unbroken trade label no. 12, rectangular black wood frame
oval, 3 1/8in. (80mm.) high

Provenance

E. Florence Austen
Frederick S. Lovering, Sotheby's, 29 June, 1948

Literature

Hickman, "The Jane Austen Family in Silhouette",Country Life, 14 December, 1961, p. 1522, fig. 3
Hickman, 1971, p. 64, fig. 31.4

Exhibited

National Portrait Gallery, London, 1972, No. 12

Lot Essay

Fanny Palmer, daughter of the Attorney-General in Bermuda, married Jane Austen's brother Charles when he was a Rear Admiral there in 1807. They returned to England in the summer of 1811 and she died in 1814, aged 24.

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