
Here’s a snapshot of me from about 2,000 years ago. It’s not too bad a likeness, and much more accurate than the ugly thing on my driver’s license. There are additional pictures from different eras below the fold. I found them here, where you obtain similar portraits of your own.
Update: the site is now defunct.





Hitherto the best picture of me was Hans Memling’s:
It’s not entirely accurate: he left my glasses off, and my hair is straighter and longer, but it’s still more more like me than any image ever taken by a camera.
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And now for something completely different: Chesterton and Belloc, as sketched by Max Beerbohm:


Yes, the Memling is still the best. I still remember how struck I was when I rounded a corner in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and came face-to-face with you. Of the others, I see you most readily in the Prince.