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Mr. Darcy's Portrait Bidding War

Jane Austen Book Club

Prop painting based on Colin Firth.

Attention Pride & Prejudice fans. A portrait of Mr Darcy, as played by Colin Firth, in the BBC adaption of Jane Austen’s novel, sold for $16,000 at auction. “The oil painting shows the actor in period costume and was hung in the character's fictional mansion home of Pemberley,” the Telegraph reported. The painting includes a letter from Firth. “The likeness was supernatural,” he wrote. “I disliked him intensely.”

Read it at The Times of London