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Title: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: heliumsocket on November 10, 2013, 11:12:03 PM

I currently work at the Portland Art Museum, and this fellow in the early American wing caught my eye.

http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0 (http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0)

AP Mike's great-great-great-great-great granddaddy? A Vigo the Carpathian-type deal? Or have I lost my mind? I might've just lost my mind.

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: Epic Soundtracks on November 11, 2013, 01:46:16 AM

totally, Helium Socket. The resemblance is uncanny. Was he a brewer?

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: narwhale on November 11, 2013, 08:40:40 PM

If you look closely you can see the note says "Do you have puppy dogs?"

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: Jason from Huntsville, AL on November 12, 2013, 12:12:25 AM

I wonder if he hung out with this guy: http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.0.html)

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: BadGuyZero on November 12, 2013, 06:41:34 AM

He holds his pinky in the air as he swigs from the tallboy.

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: heliumsocket on November 14, 2013, 11:24:14 PM

Update: The painting is by Joseph Blackburn, and is titled "The Honorable William Greenleaf."

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: daveB from Oakland on November 15, 2013, 02:30:47 AM

Quote from: Jason from Huntsville, AL on November 12, 2013, 12:12:25 AM

I wonder if he hung out with this guy: http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.0.html (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.0.html)

I bumped (http://friendsoftom.com/forum/index.php/topic,7981.15.html) that topic up.

Title: Re: Presenting: Lord Michael Chiku of the Bayonne Chikus
Post by: Stanley on November 19, 2013, 02:24:01 PM

Quote from: heliumsocket on November 10, 2013, 11:12:03 PM

I currently work at the Portland Art Museum, and this fellow in the early American wing caught my eye.

http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0 (http://imgur.com/a/fV4q2#0)

AP Mike's great-great-great-great-great granddaddy? A Vigo the Carpathian-type deal? Or have I lost my mind? I might've just lost my mind.

I'm getting a Barnabas Collins vibe here- any chance AP Mike is a hundreds of years old Bayonne vampire?