What did Charlotte Brontë actually look like?

A photograph believed

to be that of Charlotte Brontë

taken in the last year

 of her life in 1854.

Courtesy Brontë Parsonage Museum

Artist not known
Brontë Parsonage Museum
circa 1839

A head and shoulders portrait of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) showing her wearing a bonnet. It is possible that this is the portrait Charlotte writes about while on her second visit to Brussels in 1843. This would suggest the artist is Mary Dixon.

Recently restored chalk drawing of Charlotte Bronte which was purchased at Sotherbys in 2004 and carefully restored to its former glory by experts.

On the website of the National Portrait Gallery