Art from Austen's time

Can't afford a trip to London and The National Gallery? Refresh your artistic soul with these paintings and drawings.
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The Ainslie Sisters (Agnes and Margaret), Thomas Stewardson, 1808; Abbot Hall Art Gallery
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William Blake (1757-1827), Portrait of Mrs. Q (Mrs. Harriet Quentin). Upon seeing this portrait in London, Austen remarked that this was just as she imagined Mrs. Bingley (Jane Bennet who marries Charles Bingley at the conclusion of Pride and Prejudice), 1820, Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Michael S. Currier, 1998; 1998.36:4, Photography by Schecter Lee
Joan Austen-Leigh
CHAWTON COTTAGE. A contemporary unsigned watercolour, probably by Anna Lefroy, in the possession of Joan Austen-Leigh
Fashion History: Early 19th Century Regency and Romantic Styles for Women
Regency style circa 1805
Lady Maitland (Catherine Connor), Sir Henry Raeburn: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/437360
George Harley Drummond, Sir Henry Raeburn: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/437355
Whalers, Joseph Mallord William Turner: http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/437854
Jane Austen by Cassandra Austen: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/getPrint.php?npgNo=NPG+3630&title=Jane+Austen
L'aimable Jane silhouette, National Portrait Gallery (London): http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/getPrint.php?npgNo=NPG+3181&title=Jane+Austen&option=0