What monarch has the best royal portrait?

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>>2756646
Tie up between this

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>>2756655
This

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>>2756663
And this

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Duh, absolutly everyone in Europe copied that one.

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Spanish monarchs had usually great painters in their courts

>>2756699
>praising the fag
>>2756738
>when you get a bib in your painting

>>2756731
is a pure plagia of
>>2756699

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this qt

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This one is great imo

>>2756738
KANGZ

>>2758269
Is that an aging Frederick?

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>>2756646
Get out my way you animals, Our Lord and Savior has the best portrait of all time.
>>2756699
Fuck you in particular

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>>2758501

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>>275847
>Is that an aging Frederick?
Yeah. I dunno, he always seemed to me like one of the actually good monarchs of history. This portrait always captured his dignity and wisdom really well imo. Here is the full pic

>>2756738
Look how majestic he looks

>>2758269
kawaii

>>2758501
that one sucks. Napolina crossing the alps captures her cuteness and her dynamism, since he was the personification of romanticism, which is about movement. She was a general not a monarch.

>>2758501
He looks like an oversize toddler playing dress up. Kind of embarrassing.

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vik hädan

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>>2756646
>>2756655
>>2756699

>Not posting their bust by Bernini
What philistines

>>2758537
>actually good
>was a fag
>only saw his common man as Cannon fodder

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The founder of the Netherlands. Technically not a monarch, but in practise he was pretty much one.

>>2756646

Judging monarchs from their portrait is creating an artificial bias, ambiguously antagonistic to their rule.

>>2758810
gurra den andre ser mest autistisk ut favä
synd för han var en sjuhelvetes knug

>>2758982
>gurra den andre ser mest autistisk ut favä
>synd för han var en sjuhelvetes knug

"Gurra the other looks most autistic outfavä
Too bad because he was a seven-piece nugget"

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>>2756646
Her

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>>2756646
Taizong of Tang. No contest.

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>>2758913
Damn, i think we have a winner

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Willy did a pretty bad job as a Monarch, but damn, he looked the part. The contrasting white uniform and black breastplate looks really nice also.

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I rather like this one

>>2759211
POON?

>>2758913
I hate the dutch but you must admit they're aesthetic as fuck.

>>2758913
Why are all of the best painters Dutch?

>>2759680
Painting polders is hard as hell

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why cant i find this in good quality

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>>2756646
Gustavus Adolphus, or Gustav II Adolf. He has a haircut that would be fashionable right about now, and a nice Van Dyke goatee.

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>>2759680
Stronk realist training during their Golden Age.

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>*Blocks your path*

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>>2756738
henggg splllsplllboopy

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>>2756646
Alim Khan, last Emir of Bukhara.

Look at him.

>>2760132
He looks like DJ Khaled.

>>2758913
Actually looks like someone you could meet in the street today, hands down best itt

>>2758501
Nicely done. If you're going to LARP as a fucking monarchist, at least LARP as a Bonapartist

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>>2756738

kek

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*obstructs you*

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>>2760541
SHE DIDN'T BREED SO GOOD
WHO WANTS TO BE NEXT

>>2760521
he reminds me of ed milliband

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Any portraits with the subject in armor are fucking sick

>>2760141
ANOTHER ONE

>>2760063
This is #1 in my mind
>effay haircut that would put modern chads to shame
>giant man beard
>Fucking cheetah skin cloak
>tight as fuck armor

>>2760581
We need to bring back suits (of armour).

>>2761247
comfy & functionality > looks

Fuck wearing a sweaty, heavy, hard to maintain, expensive, starry armour,

>>2761258
How provincial of you.

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>>2756646
Most aesthetic English king.

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>>2756738

CUUUUTE

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>potrait
pfffffttt, fucking plebians

>>2760602
Yeah, but it's not a monarch, it's Stefan Czarniecki, a hetman (top military commander) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Cool dude though, with an unprecedented private-to-general career.

He started as a no-name petty nobleman who couldn't afford to be a hussar so he joined a light cavalry mercenary band and over a very long career he clawed his way to the very top military rank in the Commonwealth, pretty much going through every rank in between on the way and taking part in every major the Commonwealth fought battle throughout his lifetime. Covered in scars, speaking with a lisp (his palate was shattered by bullets), always on the loyalist side, master of hit-and-run tactics, and extremely keen on brutal looting.

tl;dr: pretty much a real-life Mount & Blade character.

>>2761287
Fucking beat me to it

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A baronet, not a monarch, but this is my favourite for a couple of reasons

1. Irish dress is so kooky and you barely ever see it in historical depictions
2. The random Samurai armor in the bottom left
3. He's got a silly name

>>2758913
Damn this dude has some nice armour. Is that ebony? Possibly enchanted as well.

>>2756690
>>2760541
God, look at that bow-legged stance. What a fucking man.

>>2758558
>periodically switches gender pronouns

>>2760132
he looks tired

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>>2760541
Is this the origin of the Tory power stance?

>>2761936

>sir Neil O'Neill

>>2760560
Perhaps she's wondering why Henry would execute her because his seed wasn't potent enough.

>>2761919
>fucking beet me to it

Fixed.

>>2760541
Archbishop Cranmer, I'm CoE

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>>2756646
polish banknotes are comfy
makes me sad that we cucked ourselves for euro

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>>2756646
History's only Doppelkaiser, of course. Also has the best theme song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaPVNtLXRMM

>>2763318
Why is the Wikipedia puzzle piece on your ten potato note?

>>2763615
im not polish
used google

>>2763410
Why is Grand Moff Tarken both the first and second of his name?

>>2761317
>claim to be Charlemagnes son
>use more gold than him

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>>2756646
Ramses II.

He was literally everywhere in Egypt.

>>2763963
thats because he secured a piece of territory for himself and his haplotype sharing subjects