Unidentified Portrait

[Malia]

That's a bit unfair

Well, I suppose you're right, I was a little hard on Tom Cruise.
E Kala Mai (Hawiian for "Sorry").

[Saturn]

Tom Cruise deserves it though

[dks]

Malia, you're right! Tom Hanks is a dead ringer for Byron!

Byron wasn't so much a cad as he was alot like Dr. Pepper--very misunderstood.

[Saturn]

:lol: Malia, you're right! Tom Hanks is a dead ringer for Byron!

Only in that one picture - these don't look anything like Tom Hanks:

[Credo Buffa]

[Am I just crazy or does Lord Byron look a lot like Tom Hanks (in his younger days)?

*snort!!!*

Perhaps it was really the goal of portrait artists back in the day not to create a close likeness to their subject, but to create a work that could be a wishy-washy likeness to a whole handful of people, and thus apply in more cases

[Saturn]

Byron famously was very careful in choosing the images for his portraits and the last one in my above post was actually vetoed by him and most of the engravings destroyed because he didn't like how he looked "head-on" so to speak.

He was if anything very vain...

[Malia]

Oh come on now--put Tom Hanks in a turban and give him a fancy little moustache and he'd be a perfect twin for L.B.!

Actually, the first time I made this connection was when I saw the pic of L.B. in the turban.

I just thought it was kind of funny (humorous) resemblance. Hope L.B.'s ghost wasn't offended

[Credo Buffa]

I suppose that would be the advantage of painted portraits over photography: pay the artist enough, tell them "Make me look dead sexy," and voila! Hundreds of years later, we're none the wiser

[Saturn]

Oh come on now--put Tom Hanks in a turban and give him a fancy little moustache and he'd be a perfect twin for L.B.!

Actually, the first time I made this connection was when I saw the pic of L.B. in the turban.

I just thought it was kind of funny (humorous) resemblance. Hope L.B.'s ghost wasn't offended

Byron would probably laugh, if anything - he had a wicked sense of humour