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Sat Feb 25, 2012, 12:24 PM

Feb 2012

You got Manet right!

#4 does look like Byron or Shelley. It was painted in the late 18th century and the poets wrote in the early 19th century...

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Hello, DU! The fabulous Friday Afternoon Challenge: MORE Dudes in Cool Threads! [View all] CTyankee Feb 2012 OP

Is number 2.... joeybee12 Feb 2012 #1

nowhere near the North Pole... CTyankee Feb 2012 #3

Isn't Number 1 Ralph Lauren? gratuitous Feb 2012 #2

Interesting choice for #1. He sure is dressed well enough...but it is not... CTyankee Feb 2012 #4

lyle lovett? spanone Feb 2012 #7

Wow, you know this DOES look like lovett! CTyankee Feb 2012 #9

lol, I can see that, but I see a cross between dmr Feb 2012 #67

Okay, I said Ralph Lauren gratuitous Feb 2012 #62

do you mean blake? CTyankee Feb 2012 #5

No, DUer and guitarist Bake gratuitous Feb 2012 #6

keep on chuggin' grat! Right direction! CTyankee Feb 2012 #10

#5 looks like a young Henry V111 sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #8

no...but 5 does resemble Henry a bit... CTyankee Feb 2012 #11

Lol, okay, well I did say I didn't have a clue. Re Cromwell, it was the hat for some reason! sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #13

no, get away from the church on this one... CTyankee Feb 2012 #23

Okay, still don't know but I'll keep trying. sabrina 1 Feb 2012 #68

Ha , I know them all crunch60 Feb 2012 #12

#1 looks like Orwell, cleaned up. immoderate Feb 2012 #14

that thin face, but no...sorry... CTyankee Feb 2012 #24

I'll take a crack @ #1 blogslut Feb 2012 #15

sorta looks like gielgud but not him... CTyankee Feb 2012 #17

What about the photograhper? blogslut Feb 2012 #18

yes, sorry...but the photographer is quite famous... CTyankee Feb 2012 #20

Cool blogslut Feb 2012 #25

yeah, I could see how you'd think it was Beaton. CTyankee Feb 2012 #32

Would #3 be Edward in his younger days? monmouth Feb 2012 #16

Edward in the line of succession for the British throne? CTyankee Feb 2012 #19

Yes, sorry I should have said that. Watching Tudors and all...LOL. monmouth Feb 2012 #28

I say that because in a weird way, which I won't reveal, you are right... CTyankee Feb 2012 #33

#1 is an English actor Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #21

#3 looks like Matthew McConaughey Whisp Feb 2012 #22

it does, but wrong century and wrong country...go back a little further in time... CTyankee Feb 2012 #29

:) Whisp Feb 2012 #46

#2 looks like Vlad the Impaler mainer Feb 2012 #26

I don't know what Geoffrey Rush looks like...do you have a pic? CTyankee Feb 2012 #42

How can you not know what Geoffrey Rush looks like?!! mainer Feb 2012 #57

OH, OF COURSE! King's Speech! Holy shit! CTyankee Feb 2012 #61

Did you see the ghost in Pic #1? lpbk2713 Feb 2012 #27

No, I don't see it. CTyankee Feb 2012 #34

#1 Duchamp the artist librechik Feb 2012 #30

wow, beaton seems to be the popular guy here...but not him...duchamps interesting, but not CTyankee Feb 2012 #39

is the artist Max Ernst then and the photographer Man Ray? (I'm just imagining a movie in my head) librechik Feb 2012 #43

you are just a little ahead of this era...try a bit later for this photographer... CTyankee Feb 2012 #49

#4 Robespierre by David? librechik Feb 2012 #31

You are getting closer in time, but no, not David... CTyankee Feb 2012 #36

gotta be Fragonard, then librechik Feb 2012 #40

we gotta winnah! Fragonard it is! CTyankee Feb 2012 #50

# 5 Holbein, is it Cromwell? librechik Feb 2012 #35

no, no Holbein in this... CTyankee Feb 2012 #37

King James the 1rst? #5 I mean PotatoChip Feb 2012 #66

not James. different country. CTyankee Feb 2012 #72

# 3 is John Singer Sargent, don't know the fellow he's portraying though librechik Feb 2012 #38

ahhh...there is no Sargent here. altho I love him...another fellow...his subject is famous... CTyankee Feb 2012 #41

probably European then since I have no clue, sigh librechik Feb 2012 #44

stay in that era and look just a bit further... CTyankee Feb 2012 #47

he sure was! CTyankee Feb 2012 #59

is #2 Santa Claus? Enrique Feb 2012 #45

some folks think it looks like him but it is a very different character! CTyankee Feb 2012 #48

Where's Lord Byron? annabanana Feb 2012 #51

not here but could be... CTyankee Feb 2012 #56

No.1 looks like Irving Penn Hutzpa Feb 2012 #52

correct. CTyankee Feb 2012 #54

#3 Toulouse Lautrec? annabanana Feb 2012 #53

no, but aren't you close! CTyankee Feb 2012 #55

Is #6 Blondel? jannyk Feb 2012 #58

I see how you got to Blondel but it isn't...really close in many ways, tho... CTyankee Feb 2012 #60

Is #5 Christopher Columbus? blue neen Feb 2012 #63

no, but the dates might be the same...he might have known of Columbus but not sure CTyankee Feb 2012 #71

OK, now we have # 1 is by Irving Penn but no name of subject and #4 is by Fragonard but no CTyankee Feb 2012 #64

# 3 is Edouard Manet IcyPeas Feb 2012 #65

yes! isn't he cute? CTyankee Feb 2012 #73

#2 King Wenceslas? Really shooting in the dark now... jannyk Feb 2012 #69

lot later than that... CTyankee Feb 2012 #75

first thing i thought on #2 was NMDemDist2 Feb 2012 #70

all kinds of entertaining there is....but not rasputin...this guy has a few pounds on rasputin... CTyankee Feb 2012 #74

I'll try peasant one Feb 2012 #76

see link to answers below! CTyankee Feb 2012 #79

#5 horseshoecrab Feb 2012 #77

The answers are posted CTyankee Feb 2012 #78

Wish I'd seen this yesterday. Love that you included Cocteau, suffragette Feb 2012 #80

Oh, is there some sort of link to that? I would love to see it! CTyankee Feb 2012 #81

He was so multitalented suffragette Feb 2012 #82

OK, now I'm going after that video...you've got me enthralled... CTyankee Feb 2012 #83

I think you will enjoy it suffragette Feb 2012 #84