The Work of a Moment: the Mysterious Ghost Girl Portrait in the North Carolina Museum of Art
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Above:detail from NCMA.67.13.6 The most curious portrait I've come across in a long time, and maybe ever, is this portrait of a long-necked Elizabethan or Jacobean ghost girl who bears a spooky resemblance to the famously long-necked and ultimately beheaded Anne Boleyn. The sitter also resembles Boleyn's daughter Queen Elizabeth I.
The Work of a Moment: the Mysterious Ghost Girl Portrait in the North Carolina Museum of Art
The Work of a Moment: the Mysterious Ghost…
The Work of a Moment: the Mysterious Ghost Girl Portrait in the North Carolina Museum of Art
Above:detail from NCMA.67.13.6 The most curious portrait I've come across in a long time, and maybe ever, is this portrait of a long-necked Elizabethan or Jacobean ghost girl who bears a spooky resemblance to the famously long-necked and ultimately beheaded Anne Boleyn. The sitter also resembles Boleyn's daughter Queen Elizabeth I.