As Cox points out, Cameron's innovations are deeply indebted to the portraiture of David Wilkie Wynfield, a painter who, in the early eighteen-sixties, published an album of "fancy" photographic portraits: closeups in soft focus that portrayed his friends costumed as literary or historical characters.
There are a number of other companies working on embeddable avatars, including Gizmoz and Voki, but mEgo differentiates itself by acting as a hub for a user's photos and network profiles rather than just a fancy self-portrait.
Doubles start at €81, including breakfast La Alcantarilla, Ronda If you fancy having your portrait painted while you lounge in the garden, Gabriella, the owner of this lovely old farmhouse, is an artist and lives next door.
Liz steals a few of Mrs. Hill's fancy spoons with portraits of the apostles on them.
If that doesn't tickle your fancy, how about a portrait of the Queen burnt into tree bark?
But it is possible to conceive of a more refined approach to this material, which provides a slyly devastating portrait of fancy British folk at their most frivolous and self-absorbed.
Dashwood often had himself depicted in portraits in fancy dress (in one, dressed as the pope toasting a female Herme ), and it is his love of fancy dress which seems to have pervaded through to his parties at West Wycombe Park.
Or, if you want to get extra fancy, choose three photos — two portrait and one landscape (or vice versa).
The tile floor is old and scarred, and the tables and chairs are nothing fancy, but Mexican candelabras and a portrait of Frida Kahlo add warm touches.
Until this month, there was also a large portrait of a man in fancy dress, which he found in an apartment he once rented.
