Is this girl’s indelible expression a rebuke to male baloney?

Watchful, assessing and faintly disgusted, this young Irish girl stares out of a tight frame, her own fiery interest in a world we can’t see burning through our voyeuristic interest in her. She was painted in 1860 by Ford Madox Brown, who had encountered her selling oranges on a London street. He d...

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