Posted on 11/09/03
Mr. Darcy's artistic licence
To prepare for his role in Peter Webber's film Girl With a Pearl Earring, Colin Firth became a Vermeer egghead.He obsessed over the Dutch painter, who died at 43, bankrupt and leaving behind a wife, 11 kids and 35 paintings. Firth studied his works in the Hague and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. He read every piece of research he could find. He even learned how to properly hold a brush and grind his own paints.
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