Mountain_Offer1348 t1_j0x9cyt wrote on December 20, 2022 at 2:22 AM

That is awfully flattering.

elizabeth-cooper OP t1_j0xa5gw wrote on December 20, 2022 at 2:28 AM

Is it? I think the picture makes him look puffy.

FondleMyPlumsPlease t1_j0xcpw2 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 2:48 AM

Not as puffy as them sausages of his.

pettycandy t1_j0xe0xe wrote on December 20, 2022 at 2:58 AM

I agree. Puffy, but flattering in that there are not any age lines that I can see. Maybe from an earlier portrait?

slyscamp t1_j0xrjey wrote on December 20, 2022 at 4:52 AM

Charles doesn't actually look like the portrait. He has a much slenderer, oblong face shape with a prominent nose and ears, slender jaw, on top of much more wrinkles and much less hair.

Even when he was young he didn't have that face shape.

They didn't want to make the portrait actually look like him because he is so unconventionally handsome, so they made a fictional Charles.

lstsmle331 t1_j0y7zrh wrote on December 20, 2022 at 8:02 AM

Unconventionally Handsome. I’m gonna use that from now on.

Sreg32 t1_j0xv5lz wrote on December 20, 2022 at 5:28 AM

I agree, Puffy McChuck…from a current colony!

LostTone8935 t1_j0ylql9 wrote on December 20, 2022 at 11:15 AM

I think he looks way younger on the notes than in real life, he could be a spry young man of 60.

Thue t1_j0yw9pg wrote on December 20, 2022 at 1:12 PM

They did flatter him, but you can clearly recognize him without any problems. I think they did a good compromise. Official portraits are supposed to be flattering.