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'I left no ring with her. What means this lady? / Fortune forbid, my outside have not charm'd her!'
New this week, this exquisite Shakespearean portrait depicting Viola from Twelfth Night, disguised as the male Cesario, page to Duke Orsino. In the manner of prolific painter of Shakespearean heroines, Victorian artist Thomas Francis Dicksee (1819–1895)–Ophelia (image 2, Bilbao Museum of Art); Juliet (image 3, Sotheby's); Beatrice (image 4); Miranda (image 5, Sotheby's).