When you’re a monarch, you know you’ll have your portrait hanging in the palace somewhere. Some of these paintings were super funny-looking. Whether it was because the royal didn’t measure up to the beauty standards or if they were purposely portrayed as ugly to criticize them for their labor, here are some of the goofiest royal portraits in history.
Emperor Leopold I Of The Holy Roman Empire
By Jan Thomas, 1667
King Philip IV Of Spain
By Diego Velázquez, 1656
Mary Queen of Scots
Scotland, 1567.
Spanish Royalty, Court, And Commentators
By Diego Velázquez, 1656-1657
King Charles II Of Spain
By Luca Giordano, 1693
Victoria
By Franz Xaver Winterhalter. England, 1843.
Queen Elizabeth I Of England
By An Unknown Artist, 1575-1600
Queen Caroline Of The United Kingdom
By James Lonsdale, c. 1820
King Of England Ethelred the Unready
By Unknown Artist, c. 970
King Louis XVI Of France
By Antoine-François Callet, 1788
Elizabeth I
By Isaac Oliver. England, 1592
Archduchess Maria Anna Of Bavaria
By unknown artist. C. 1600
King James II Of Scotland
By An Unknown Artist, 17th Century
King Ferdinand VII Of Spain
By Francisco Goya, 1814-1815
Queen Caroline Of The United Kingdom
By James Tookey and Friedrich Schroeder, 1795
George III
By James Gillray. England, 1792.
King Charles II Of Spain
By Juan Carreño de Miranda, c. 1677-1679
King Henry VIII
By Peter Isselburg and Cornelis Metsis. England, 1646
King Philip IV Of Spain
By Gaspar de Crayer, 1627-1628
Prince Sergei Golitsyn Of Russia
By Gio Battista Ortolani Damon, 1801-1810
Queen Elizabeth I Of England
By An Unknown Artist, c. 1610
Queen Elizabeth I Of England
By William Rogers, 1595-1603
Emperor Leopold I Of The Holy Roman Empire
By Benjamin von Block, c. 1670
King Frederik VII Of Denmark
By An Unknown Artist, 19th Century
King James I Of England
By Arnold van Brounckhorst, c. 1574
King George III Of Great Britain
By Henry Meyer, 1817
King Ferdinand II Of Spain
By Michel Sittow, 15th/16th Century
Emperor Maximilian I Of The Holy Roman Empire
By Bernhard Strigel, 15th/16th Century
King Stephen Of England
By Unknown Artist, c. 1620
Henry VII
England, 1505.
