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Does this looks like Ricardo Montalban to you?

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I ask sincerely because I don't see the resemblance

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I took it she painted that before the Enterprise found the Botany Bay. She had a predisposition for liking that era.

Fragmentary records of the time might mean she didn't have the best reference sources.

And her art style might not be heavily into realism.
 
IMHO, the visage seems more like an amalgamation of Ricardo Montalban with a 50-something Gary Human (but with a more pronounced jawline)? But Gary was only something like 8 at the time, but the portrait is a very good likeness...

Plus., in-universe, what @Shawnster said makes the most sense. Still like my answer, though... And now, in a complete moment of nonsurprise, he's a random Numan clip:

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(Would have probably been fun as the Celestial Toymaker, too... but he's not into acting as far as I'm aware, and I digress within a digression...)
 
I do. I think its a faithful rendition and it was done in watercolor. That is some true artistic skill.
I assumed the painting was a fresh, incomplete work-in-progress.

My first thoughts when I see the painting: I can't get past the sea of blood imagery she associated with Khan in her painting. He "approved" of the painting once he saw it; a dictator proud of his bloody past. Maybe?
 
I assumed the painting was a fresh, incomplete work-in-progress.

My first thoughts when I see the painting: I can't get past the sea of blood imagery she associated with Khan in her painting. He "approved" of the painting once he saw it; a dictator proud of his bloody past. Maybe?
Maybe? I like your subtext of Noonien Singh's past endeavors; the episode does know how to create depth in a villain in layers.
 
The painting captured his intensity…it is how he sees himself…glowering

ST II showed that in full.

Clint Walker looked nothing like JFK but it was the correct casting for PT-109 psychically speaking.

The mimes who played Moonwatcher and his tribe did better in less accurate svelte suits:
https://www.artdigiland.com/blog/20...he-man-ape-of-2001-a-space-odyssey?format=amp

Though he sounded nothing at all like Archibald Leach, the voice of Jonathan Pryce was better perhaps to voice the inner man in “Becoming Cary Grant:”

https://beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/becoming-cary-grant/

The best art doesn’t imitate, it evokes
 
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