Photography
As a photographer, I find this very interesting. There are obviously lots of paintings of famous war heroes, but not as many photos - because photography wasn't invented yet. The photos that ARE there obviously show people older than their portraits. But it makes me wonder - what did people really look like? Paintings are never ENTIRELY clear because every artist seems to have painted a person differently. I just find it interesting to put a mental "age filter" on the photos that there are, and compare them to earlier paintings of the same people, and try to figure out what they really must have looked like when they were younger. Or just to marvel at the advance in technology.
Please do post your own comparisons, if you're interested. :) (And forgive me yet again for making too many threads!)
I'll give links because these pictures can be quite large.
Cochrane:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Thomas_Cochrane%2C_10th_Earl_of_Dundonald.jpg
Photograph: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/fullsize/SIL14-D5-11a.jpg
Wellington:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Field_Marshal_Arthur_Wellesley_KG_CCB_GCH_CoR_1st_Duke_of_Wellington2.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Sir_Arthur_Wellesley_Duke_of_Wellington.jpg (thanks latin_cat!
Photograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Duke_of_Wellington_Photo.jpg
Crozier:
Drawing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Captaincrozier.jpg
Photograph: http://ipy.arcticportal.org/images/uploads/Capt._Francis_R.M._Crozier_%28HMS_Terror%29.JPG
Courtesy of anteros_lmc:
Franklin:
Drawing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Franklin.jpg
Photograph: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/tserver.php?f=9191-1.jpg&h=650&legacyResize
James Clark Ross:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/James_Clark_Ross.jpg - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_James_Clark_Ross_by_Stephen_Pearce.jpg
Photograph: http://www.jamescairdsociety.com/pix/Ross%20250.jpg
Please do post your own comparisons, if you're interested. :) (And forgive me yet again for making too many threads!)
I'll give links because these pictures can be quite large.
Cochrane:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Thomas_Cochrane%2C_10th_Earl_of_Dundonald.jpg
Photograph: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/fullsize/SIL14-D5-11a.jpg
Wellington:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Field_Marshal_Arthur_Wellesley_KG_CCB_GCH_CoR_1st_Duke_of_Wellington2.jpg - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Sir_Arthur_Wellesley_Duke_of_Wellington.jpg (thanks latin_cat!
Photograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Duke_of_Wellington_Photo.jpg
Crozier:
Drawing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Captaincrozier.jpg
Photograph: http://ipy.arcticportal.org/images/uploads/Capt._Francis_R.M._Crozier_%28HMS_Terror%29.JPG
Courtesy of anteros_lmc:
Franklin:
Drawing: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Franklin.jpg
Photograph: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/tserver.php?f=9191-1.jpg&h=650&legacyResize
James Clark Ross:
Painting: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/James_Clark_Ross.jpg - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_James_Clark_Ross_by_Stephen_Pearce.jpg
Photograph: http://www.jamescairdsociety.com/pix/Ross%20250.jpg
