Monday, April 25, 2011

You could have knocked me over with a shopping cart

Are these portraits not very similar? I got these likenesses from Wikipedia and they are in the public domain I believe. Anyway--Thomas Browne, 17th century doctor and essayist, T. C. Boyle, novelist,  and Arthur Phillips, novelist (2011-The Tragedy of Arthur). All of the gentlemen illustrate an unusual degree of originality in their writing. How interesting then to see a similarity in their physiognomy.



Portrait of Sir Thomas Browne
Born 19 October 1605,Died 19 October 1682 (aged 77)


T. C. Boyle. born 1948



Arthur Phillips
Born 1969

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