Painting Steventon Rectory: Depicting Jane Austen’s Childhood Home Through Art & Evidence — Jo South
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About this event
Nothing is left of Jane Austen's birthplace - Steventon Rectory in Hampshire. It is now just a field a short walk from the church. But, the findings from the 2011 Archaeological Rectory Project, detailed in the book Archaeology Greets Jane Austen by Deborah Charlton (2017) started a fascinating artistic endeavour to paint what the Rectory would have looked like.
Allowing for some artistic license, this is the first known representation, to date, of the Rectory in Jane Austen's time, approved by Lead Archaeologist Deborah Charlton. In the words of Deborah, seeing the final painting for the first time was “A very emotional moment—looking at Steventon Rectory, visible again after 203 years.”
Hampshire Chronicle: "The unveiling of the Steventon Rectory painting marks a significant contribution to Jane Austen heritage and offers a new visual connection to the author’s formative years."
Jo will talk us through the process of how she developed the visual interpretation of the Rectory and painted the picture based on the evidence.
If you are expecting a typical Georgian-style Rectory, you might be surprised by the outcome!
To attend this talk, which is via Zoom, please register by clicking on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ypqYMnRnTKGUIOw3ihAX1w.
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