Van Gogh, oil on canvas, 1885:
Peter Paul Rubens Portrait of the Bearded Man:
Gianni Strino:
In 2011/12 Joseph Anderson from Saskatoon (Saskatchewan, Canada) produced a series of water colours of men with beards. His subjects were people he already knew and some other randoms that he cajoled into posing:
The painting below is called Man With White Beard and it’s by Jacopo Robusti, otherwise known as Tintoretto and Il Furioso (1570-1578). That’s a lot of pseudonyms. Tintoretto was a big player in the Renaissance period apparently:
Self portrait of Jacopo Robusti:
Flemish painter Anthony Van Dyck, self portrait:
And another of Von Dyck’s from around 1616:
Gaetano Gandolfi – Study of a Bearded Man 1770:
John Worley 1705:
William Turner Dannat Portrait of Robert Gordan Hardie. Both were artists:
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Aaron Smith, a modern day artist, likes painting fellas with beards too:
Here’s a quote from Smith’s official site:
For years I’ve collected vintage photographs of men from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. These images for me represent a masculine ideal, if largely a constructed one. Their bearded faces and distinguished attire are spectacular, while their stiff poses and serious expressions belie a kind of vulnerability.
The Great Kahn (Genghis) by a Nepalese Painter:
Here’s another of Genghis from the Yuan era:
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Not sure who did this or when they did it; or who it’s of, or why:
Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil was the founder and first ruler of the Empire of Brazil. He was also known as “The Liberator”. This painting was by an unknown artist c.1834:
By Marci Oleszkiewicz in 2011:
Portrait of a thin faced man from the Roman period A.D. 160–180:
Well, I enjoyed that. If you enjoyed it too, hit the like button and if it gets some action I’ll do another one. If there isn’t any FB action I will probably do another one anyway, because I want to. So don’t worry about “liking” it after all.
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