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Vanity-Need help identifying this portrait
A restaurant | 12/5/15 | zebeee

Posted on 12/05/2015 6:34:20 PM PST by zeebee

I saw this old portrait hanging in a restaurant. I've seen this face before but it's killing me to that I cannot identify who it is.

I have googled everything possible and get nowhere.

Does anyone know who this portrait or photograph represents?

thanks.



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To: o_1_2_3__

Geez, who is that fop? Got to be an northeastern type.............


41 posted on 12/05/2015 7:18:52 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: cherry
Andrew Carnegie?...

The visual literacy on this thread is like an episode of Leno's "Jay Walking"....


42 posted on 12/05/2015 7:20:28 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: zeebee
Next time you are in the restaurant try the app Google Googles. It works great at identifying paintings, pictures, sculptures etc... I tried it on your post but it doesn't do to well from the computer screen.
43 posted on 12/05/2015 7:20:41 PM PST by SunTzuWu
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To: zeebee

Got to be Sam Houston! We have his portrait in our den, it’s Sam!


44 posted on 12/05/2015 7:21:26 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Albion Wilde

Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell look like one another. Both Scottish.


45 posted on 12/05/2015 7:22:12 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: Don W

Edison was my guess-


46 posted on 12/05/2015 7:22:17 PM PST by Company Man (I say we take off and Trump the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.)
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To: zeebee

Looks like he belongs on one of those high denomination dollar bills.


47 posted on 12/05/2015 7:24:20 PM PST by Ken H
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To: Company Man

Edison had rounder face and weaker chin.


48 posted on 12/05/2015 7:25:02 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: zeebee

President James Buchanan?

http://news.yahoo.com/james-buchanan-why-considered-america-worst-president-100229629—politics.html


49 posted on 12/05/2015 7:25:42 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: zeebee

The image location is related to this website:
http://mhmyers.com/

Specifically here:
http://www.mhmyers.com/img_4515.jpg

Did you upload the picture there?


50 posted on 12/05/2015 7:27:25 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: zeebee

Do you remember which restaurant it was? If so, why don’t you call them and axe them about it? :-D


51 posted on 12/05/2015 7:27:46 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: eyedigress
Martin Van Buren

Getting warmer!


52 posted on 12/05/2015 7:29:06 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: zeebee

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and fate

I was ‘round when Jesus Christ
Had his moments of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank
Held a General’s rank
When the Blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
What’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched the glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the Gods they made

I shouted out
“ho killed the Kennedys?”
Well after all
It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah


53 posted on 12/05/2015 7:29:48 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (As we say in the Air Force, "You know you're over the target when you start getting flak!")
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To: zeebee

Colonel Sanders?


54 posted on 12/05/2015 7:31:08 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Ditter
Got to be Sam Houston! We have his portrait in our den, it’s Sam!

Now that looks possible; but I'm skeptical. Sam Houston appears to have a longer flatter chin, a wider nose and a different brow:


55 posted on 12/05/2015 7:34:09 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: doorgunner69

Louis Rukeyser


56 posted on 12/05/2015 7:36:04 PM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: Albion Wilde
It is a painting not a photograph. You don't know what the artist was looking at when he painted it.
57 posted on 12/05/2015 7:41:19 PM PST by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Ditter; zeebee; Paladin2; Don W; j.argese; TomServo; cherry; ETL; firebrand; eyedigress
It is a painting not a photograph. You don't know what the artist was looking at when he painted it.

I agree with you there. I don't know who it is, but I've been trying to demonstrate that I know who it isn't. My closest guess is an older depiction of Cornelius Vanderbilt, early railroad magnate, but I don't even think that is correct:


58 posted on 12/05/2015 7:48:03 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Look, the establishment doesn't want me, because I don't need the establishment." --Donald Trump)
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To: zeebee; Salamander; TheOldLady; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono
It's "Papa Joe" Griesedieck (pronounced "greasy-dick") Founder of the Falstaff Family of Fine Beers -

Brewed with the effluent waters from the USSteel South Chicago Works -


59 posted on 12/05/2015 7:48:28 PM PST by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: Ken H
 photo misc - img_4515 MONEY_zpshk59n6lp.jpg
60 posted on 12/05/2015 7:49:13 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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