This is the new pic on my PC desktop. It is by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1871-1945) and called "The Ugly Princess" She doesn't seem to be exceptionally ugly (although her face is mostly obscured) maybe the backstory here is that this princess is painfully self-conscious with no good reason. I wonder if maybe there's some sort of novel or epic poem about an ugly princess, as a lot of Pre-Raphealite paintings have some sort of basis in literature. Or folklore...maybe there is an "ugly princess " legend.
I will have to investigate further (gawd...ANYTHING to divert me from actual work!!)
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