Best-looking man before 1920.

[+ friendofsheila]

Who do you think was the best-looking man who died before 1920?

 

(I chose this year so that the men who lived past 1920, like all those silent movie men, would be eliminated. Yes, this makes it tough!)

 

And don't just type a name; give a us a link to pictures/paintings!

 

I think the man to beat is Rupert Brooke:

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=rupert%20brooke&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=L6v2UabrBsGyyAHb_YHYBA

[tyro]

Can't go wrong with a good poet.

T

[Decatur Guy]

He was pretty hot in sensitive soul kind of way.

[Decatur Guy]

Eugene Delacroix looks like the kind of man who could throw you down on the bed in a fit of artistic passion and dick you down good, and then paint you lying in exhausted bliss.

 

http://i2.listal.com/image/4123621/600full-eugene-delacroix.jpg

[tyro]

Why yes he does, DG! I'm LIKING this thread!

T

[+ azdr0710]

 

I think the man to beat is Rupert Brooke:

 

 

 

http://anglophiliaisanstd.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/rupert-brooke02.jpg

[+ azdr0710]

certainly not endorsing him, but JW Booth was considered by some to be the best-looking actor in the US in his time

 

http://myamericanodyssey.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Manhunt-John_Wilkes_Booth_Escape_Route_Tour.jpg

[Will Do]

A younger Robert E. Lee.

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/271743dbf59d38be0643208ac2c0e703/tumblr_mg7fmmC5cd1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg

 

Source: http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/page/43

[marylander1940]

What about young Prince Consort Albert, Victoria's cousin and husband?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Prince_Albert_-_Partridge_1840.jpg/220px-Prince_Albert_-_Partridge_1840.jpg

 

Czar Nicholas II of Russia?

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyzs9tz1re1r1pivbo1_1280.jpg

 

Emperor Pedro II of Brazil was quite a cub for today's standards?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Pedro_II_of_Brazil_1850.jpg

[Will Do]

Booth conspirator Lewis Thornton Powell. Hanged for his part in the conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln. Age 21 in this colorized pic.

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c797a89471ad6181552d2276d8cbc926/tumblr_mlysgr1I5y1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg

 

http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/page/4

[JT Brooklyn]

http://anglophiliaisanstd.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/rupert-brooke02.jpg

 

A Gorgeous Head of Hair / Aqualine Nose will do it everytime for a Man!

[+ Cash4Trash]

Cheating a bit because he died in 1925 but I vote for Eugen Sandow.

 

http://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1920&bih=1066&q=eugen+sandow&oq=Eugen+Sandow&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1964.5525.0.10703.12.7.0.5.5.0.65.300.7.7.0....0...1ac.1.22.img..0.12.325.ZKiL

[doitb4ugo]

Lord Byron was quite a looker in his day....

 

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wAF6sWkaiIg/T4dlmGXV7AI/AAAAAAAAAvE/foEQYJNv4Vs/s1600/05+lordbyron.jpg

[tyro]

True dat, Rich!! Byron was a PIMP!

Bodybuilder Sandow is also impressive. All that without 'roids.

T

[+ poolboy48220]

Booth conspirator Lewis Thornton Powell. Hanged for his part in the conspiracy to kill Abraham Lincoln. Age 21 in this colorized pic.

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c797a89471ad6181552d2276d8cbc926/tumblr_mlysgr1I5y1qeu6ilo1_500.jpg

 

http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/page/4

I second that. After doing some research after reading "Manhunt", about the weeks-long search for John Wilkes Booth, I saw this picture of Powell and thought...damn!

[Guest Starbuck]

I'm enjoying the suggestions and than all the while thinking ...

 

As if there aren't already so many unattainable men in the present, we have to troll the archives.

 

So I guess it's true: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL.

[Will Do]

Hermann Rorschach of inkblot fame.

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmsg43ElM61qkgs51o1_500.jpg

 

http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com/page/29

[Will Do]

Unidentified Tennessean circa 1860

 

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqpzpr9o2Q1qkgs51o1_500.jpg

 

http://mydaguerreotypeboyfriend.tumblr.com/page/24

[Will Do]

Alexander of Greece, king from 1917-1920. Died at age 27 from a monkey bite!

 

Born Prince of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4089/5020164671_aa5c2fb00c_z.jpg

 

 

http://www.gwpda.org/photos/coppermine/albums/uploads/statesmen/normal_0304.jpg

 

http://www.royaltyguide.nl/images-families/oldenburg/greece/1893%20Alexander-01.gif

[+ purplekow]

What a cheeky monkey.

 

My Choice Butch Cassidy

 

http://www.thelongridersguild.com/callahan-cassidy.htm

[AdamSmith]

A whole tumblr dedicated to the idea: http://historicallyhandsomemen.tumblr.com/

 

...although the top post there at the moment is, possibly, an acquired taste:

 

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mapbosRsGn1qgitbeo1_400.jpg

Swedish architect and civil servant, Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz 1716 - 1796

[liubit]

King Ludwig II of Bavaria, when young (sorry I cannot embed a picture here, but Google him...gorgeous boy).

[Will Do]

Ludwig II of Bavaria

 

House of Wittlesbach

 

http://www.psychdegrees.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2-Ludwig-II-of-Bavaria-1845-1886.jpg

 

Handsome but bat shit crazy! (But then again his aunt, Princess Alexandra of Bavaria claimed she swallowed a full-size grand piano made of glass!)

[liubit]

Thanks for the picture....oh, yes, quite crazy, like many in the Wittelsbach family (lots of inbreeding, I'm afraid), including, to a lesser extent, his most eccentric first cousin Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, commonly known as Sissi.....

[Will Do]

Another photo of Rupert Brooke

 

http://31.media.tumblr.com/b8e1c379d5ad9b6ff77a32edd2efab28/tumblr_mevueeMQxe1qeu6ilo1_400.jpg