Jane Austen’s real ‘Mr Darcy’ may fetch 50,000 pounds at auction
London, June 11 : A thin semblance of a Negro believed to hit inspired Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice case Mr Darcy is due to bring 50,000 pounds at an auction.
The semblance of saint Lefroy, who the novelist is said to hit idolized in her youth, was varnished by an arts creator famous as martyr Engleheart on whiteness in 1798.
Austen met Lefroy - who described his feelings for her as a “boyish love” - in 1796 at the geezerhood of 21.
They are said to hit talked, danced and flirted, and after she titled him “a gentlemanlike, good-looking, gratifying teen man”, reports BBC.
There are individual locks of material settled in a commission at the backwards of the miniature, though it is not famous to whom they belonged.
The represent module be oversubscribed at the Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair in author after this month.
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