Costume designer Pauline Loven of Wag Screen who made the short advert said: “We wanted to use easily recognisable paintings that we could reproduce and once we decided to use the Girl with a Pearl Earring we thought Samuel Pepys was the most interesting because if anyone would have been a fan of Twitter like Stephen Fry is it would have been Pepys.”
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This is Great… Thought I’d share a Girl With a Pearl image I found:
http://sweb.uky.edu/~hahast2/portfolio/photos.html#img/ps/y.jpg