For the anglophile who has everything: later this month, two miniature portraits of Elizabeth I and her lover Robert Dudley are expected to fetch £80,000 at auction according to the Telegraph.
The portraits, which date back to 1575, were painted to commemorate the end of their longstanding love affair. Don’t we all get portraits done of our ex-boyfriends?
What fascinates me about these miniatures is not the price, but the detail. They’re less than an inch high!
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Jenna Schnuer 11.18.09 at 11:26 am
Oh, if only I had the pocket change for them.
Brit Fancy 11.20.09 at 9:03 pm
Only an inch high! How in the world did they manage to save them for so many years without losing them?!