The most famous painting of the Brontë sisters depicts Anne, Emily and Charlotte arranged around a small table holding a book, the first two sisters separated from the third by a pillar. The artist was the lone male sibling, Branwell, and over the almost two centuries since it was painted at the family home in Haworth, West Yorkshire, a pale ghost has gradually appeared beneath the pillar that separates the sisters.
It is Branwell. He literally painted himself out of his own portrait of the family.
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