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Chieftain
This is a really tough call. I *wanted* this to be a match, but I'm not convinced. First of, the shine on the breast plate definitely speaks for it a lot more than the Erik XIV image shown above. But, like also mentioned, the lack of shine on the arm is definitely an issue.
I tried to match them up, and a few things that speaks against this image:
1) The collar seems to be too short compared to the blurred image, making the distance between the collar and the sheen on the breast plate too big.
2) When I blur up the sharp image in an attempt to match it up, I don't get the shine on the arm, in contrary, the arm almost completely disappears. The collar region also seems to be too dark.
3) The lower end of the shine on the breast plate may or may not align, depending on where one puts the ending on the sharp image. I aligned to the lower part where it's faded in an attempt to match the shine on the hip to the shine seen in the bottom of E1, but I'm not convinced the shine on the hip is bright enough to match that. Part of it may be the dog head though, so again, it's inconclusive.
I'm looking forward to see someone else try to match them up in detail!
It still doesn't look quite right... But the slightly darker spot at the bottom of E1 is in about the right position to be the dog's eye...
DEAR LORD, I appreciate it was the style of the time, but could portrait painters not have mixed things up a little?! We've found how many close matches to this picture now?