The reading passage examines a recentprofessionally portrait of a teenage girl which owned by a member of the Jane Austen's families, and asserts that the teenage girl in portrait is Jane Austen herself. However, the professor in lecture thinks contradicts to the reading state and supports his idea in three specific points.
Firstly, the lecture points out that even through the use of portrait as an illustration in an edition of Austen'sletters was get the approval of Austen's family, as the passage said, the case was happened 70 years after Austen's death. Her family might didn't see Austen with their own eyes, which means the teenage girl in portrait, could be mistake for Jane Austen.
Secondly, the passage indicates the face of the girl in portrait resembles Austen in the only accepted image by her sister. But the lecture insists that there are many girls in Austen's family have these facial features, and the girl in portrait could be MG, one of Austen's distant kin.
Finally, contrary to the statement inreading that the image was painted by Ozias Humphrey. The professor contends that a stamp on the portraitreveals the painter actually is WL, and, base on the fact that Jane Austen hasalready been old in WL's active period. Thus, the girl in the painting seems impossible to be Austen herself.
In conclusion, the professor clearly refute the weakness in the reading and convincingly shows that the girl in painting is not Jane Austen herself.