Jane Austen's First Love, It's the Original Mr Darcy

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A TINY portrait of the man a young Jane Austen loved and lost, and who is believed to have been the inspiration for Mr Darcy in Pride And Prejudice, is to surface at a London antiques fair.

The three-inch high watercolour of Irishman Thomas Langlois Lefroy was painted by leading English miniaturist George Engleheart in 1798, two years after the 20-year-old sweethearts were forced to part.

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Jane Austen's First Love, It's the Original Mr Darcy

Lefroy's family, of Huguenot origin, was not wealthy and expected him to marry a woman of me...

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