Anna Walker

One of them you probably know, the now famous portrait on the £10 note hanging in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

The other was painted during one of their trips to Lyme Regis.

In it, Jane's sitting beneath a tree, her back turned to us.

She's wearing a pale blue dress with a matching bonnet, her hand resting gently on her knee.

We can only just see a sliver of her face peeking out from under the brim of her hat.

The novel Austen was writing when she died, Sanditon, was set in a seaside town inspired by Lyme.

It's a fitting final resting place then, not where her body lies in the cold vaults of Winchester Cathedral.

but in the ink of her sister's portrait, gazing out to sea, still keeping her secrets.

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