This is supposed to be a fun post, not serious research. However it is based on something that I’m interested in, the idea of the doppelganger (a ghostly double). See my previous post, ‘Rossetti and the doppelgängers’. Every now and then, when looking at Long Victorian photographs and paintings, I see a face that immediately makes me think of another person known to me today. A spooky curiosity. By adding these to the finds of others, I’ve ferreted away an eccentric little collection. Not much point in my showing you people that aren’t publicly known, but here are some folk that you might be aware of, together with their (mostly Victorian) doppelgängers. Let me know of any other examples. Enjoy!
Orlando Bloom
Eva Green
Tom Hiddleston
Nicole Kidman
Keanu Reeves
Mark Zuckerberg
Justin Timberlake
Nicholas Cage
Robert Pattison
Anne Hathaway
Brad Pitt
Eddie Murphy
John Travolta
Larry David
Rachel Weisz
Michael Fassbender
Michael Jackson
Rupert Grint
Isaac Newton (Sir Isaac’s death-mask) and Robin Williams
Vladimir Putin
You might chuckle now, but one day you’ll be looking through some old photographs and see your doppelgänger gazing back!
BELOW: Victorian doppelgängers on Pinterest (The Long Victorian)
Post on doppelgangers/doubles in Victorian art here.
The Long Victorian 
How very interesting!
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It makes going into the National Portrait Gallery interesting. You never know whose likeness you will be gazing upon. 😮
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Some of them are a stretch but some of them are indeed seriously and weirdly similar.
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I agree. I tried to pick those that had more than just a physical resemblance, and had some other mysterious “factor x”.
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I love the US Grant one!! I’m a big fan of the sad general. I live really close to the cottage he spent his last months in as he wrote his famous autobiography. I have a tintype that basically is my daughter! A friend found it. So weird. Don’t you want one of yourself?
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Oh, I haven’t read his autobiography, and I did study some US history. Yes, I’d love a tintype of my doppelgänger! Actually, I think tintypes are coming back 🙂
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I had a glass negative photo taken with a group of Civil War re-enactors i used to travel with when researching my novels. but that doesn’t count as a doppelganger. 🙂
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Sounds wonderful! As does travelling whilst researching novels. 🙂
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