19 Portraits of Famous People That Prove They Had Their Own “Photoshop” Experts in the Past

Like the photographers of today that have an idea for a perfect shot, angle, and other things, the artists of the past had their own vision of how to portray people. This is why some portraits are much better than others.

Catherine II

© Klaus Graf / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Follower of Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder / Portrait of Catherine II of Russia / Kunsthistorisches Museum / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Charles II of Spain

© Claudio Coello / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Attributed to a follower of Claudio Coello / Carlos II, King of Spain / Royal Collection / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Anne Boleyn

© National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

© Josef Grassi / Supposed Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / State Glinka Museum of Music Culture / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Barbara Krafft / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Mozart: A Documentary Biography / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Louis XVI

© Joseph-Siffred Duplessis / Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Antoine-François Callet / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Voltaire

© Nicolas de Largillière / Palace of Versailles / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © After Maurice Quentin de La Tour / Portrait of François Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire / Musée Antoine-Lécuyer / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova

© Dmitry Levitzky / Portrait of Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova / Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Nikolai Gogol

© Otto Friedrich Theodor von Möller / Portrait of N.Gogol / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © East News

Johann Sebastian Bach

© Elias Gottlob Haussmann / Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach / Bach-Archiv Leipzig / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Bachhaus.eisenach / Wikimedia Commons, © CC BY-SA 3.0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

© Maurice Quentin de La Tour / Portrait de Jean-Jacques Rousseau / Musée Carnavalet / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Album / Prisma / East News

Marquise de Pompadour

© Miguel Hermoso Cuesta / Wikimedia Commons, © CC BY-SA 4.0, © East News

Niccolò Paganini

© John Whittle / Portrait of Niccolò Paganini / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © E. H. Schoeder / Niccolò Paganini portrait / Bergen Public Library Norway / Flickr

Georges Jacques Danton

© L. L. Schilly / Georges-Jacques Danton / Palace of Versailles / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Portrait de Georges Danton / Musée Carnavalet / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Elizabeth I

© Workshop of Steven van der Meule / Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Elizabeth I of England / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Charlotte Brontë

© Mary Evans Picture Library / Mary Evans Picture Library / East News, © Patrick Branwell Brontë / The Brontë Sisters / National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Baruch Spinoza

© Portrait of Benedictus de Spinoza / Herzog August Library / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Fine Art Images / Image State / East News

Anne of Austria

© Portrait of Anne of Austria / Frans Pourbus the Younger / Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Portrait of Anne of Austria / Peter Paul Rubens / Museo del Prado / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Margaret Theresa of Spain

© Margherita Maria Teresa d'Asburgo, Infanta di Spagna e Sacra Romana Imperatrice / Attributed to Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia / Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Unknown artist / Empress Margarita Teresa and her daughter Maria Antonia / Hofburg Palace / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

William Shakespeare

© Unknown artist, possibly photographed by Oli Scarff / The Cobbe Portrait of WillIam Shakespeare / National Trust / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0, © Attributed to John Taylor / Portrait of William Shakespeare / National Portrait Gallery / Wikimedia Commons, © CC0 1.0

Which of these portraits look as if 2 different people are in them?

Preview photo credit Margherita Maria Teresa d'Asburgo, Infanta di Spagna e Sacra Romana Imperatrice / Attributed to Francisco Ignacio Ruiz de la Iglesia / Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0, Unknown artist / Empress Margarita Teresa and her daughter Maria Antonia / Hofburg Palace / Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0

Cheery/Facts/19 Portraits of Famous People That Prove They Had Their Own “Photoshop” Experts in the Past

Share This Article