Emily Brontë portrait goes under the hammer
Painting set to fetch £4,000 at auction, a month after smaller portrait of Wuthering Heights author was sold for £24,000
For the second time in two months, a previously unknown portrait captioned "Emily Brontë" is to be auctioned, showing the Wuthering Heights author as a winsome but pensive young woman.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 11 January, 2012
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