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Salome (1520s) Bernardino Luini

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Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart, 1638 Anthony van Dyck

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Portrait Study of a Lady in a Yellow Dress, c. 1870 Emma Sandys

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The Favorite, 2010 Omar Rayyan

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A Family Portrait of Four Children, 1915 Harrington Mann

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ASOIAF as historical paintings (8/∞) Alicent Hightower reading to Old King Jaehaerys

Ser Otto’s precocious fifteen-year-old daughter, Alicent, became his constant companion, fetching His Grace his meals, reading to him, helping him to bathe and dress himself. The Old King sometimes mistook her for one of his daughters, calling her by their names; near the end, he grew certain she was his daughter Saera, returned to him from beyond the narrow sea. In the year 103 AC King Jaehaerys I Targaryen died in his bed as Lady Alicent was reading to him from Septon Barth’s Unnatural History. (GRRM, Fire & Blood)

An Interesting Story, 1890 Francis Sydney Muschamp

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Le goûter des dames Évariste Carpentier (1845–1922)

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A Saint Reading Scriptures Bernardino Luini (1480 - 1532)

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ASOIAF as historical paintings (7/∞) Young Elia Martell in the water gardens

A Young Girl by a Pool Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)

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ASOIAF as historical paintings (6/∞) Young Dany wearing her mother's crown

Years past they had been forced to sell their last few treasures, and now even the coin they had gotten from Mother’s crown had gone. When Viserys sold their mother’s crown, the last joy had gone from him, leaving only rage. And the Tourmaline Brotherhood pressed on her a crown wrought in the shape of a three-headed dragon; the coils were yellow gold, the wings silver, the heads carved from jade, ivory, and onyx. The crown was the only offering she’d kept. The rest she sold, to gather the wealth she had wasted on the Pureborn. Xaro would have sold the crown too—the Thirteen would see that she had a much finer one, he swore—but Dany forbade it. “Viserys sold my mother’s crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen.” And so she did, though the weight of it made her neck ache. (GRRM, A Game of Thrones)

Princess with a spindle by Hanna Hirsch-Pauli

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Perdita, c. 1866 Frederick Sandys

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Breakfast Time, 1887 Hanna Hirsch-Pauli

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Young Beauty in a Green Dress Gustave Jean Jacquet

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The Madonna of the Roses (1903) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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Jephthah's Daughter (c. 1896 - 1902) by James Tissot

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Portrait of Madame De Pompadour, by François Boucher, 1756

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Baby Lyra and Pantalaimon during the Great Flood

[A Flood, 1870, by John Everett Millais]