Guffwatch - it's 'Mona Kate'!
January 15 2013
Video: The ArtFund
Ye Gods, it gets worse. Here, Christopher Lloyd, formerly of the Royal Collection and a trustee of the ArtFund, through whom the portrait was commissioned, compares the portrait to a Leonardo (really).
In centuries to come, will art historians wonder what 'Mona Kate' was smiling about?
Update - a reader writes:
If you were to cast and script this as comedy, it would look and sound no different. Hilarious!
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