What was Isaac Newton's real face?

[jonjacson]

I ask because each painting seems to represent a different person.

This is the death mask:

What painting do you think is closer to the death mask?

 

[Frabjous]

Some differences are obviously age and weight related. Can you date the paintings and place in order?

 

[jonjacson]

Some differences are obviously age and weight related. Can you date the paintings and place in order?

I don't have that information.

 

[BillTre]

Don't know about his face, but his hair is legendary, according to some.

 

[Frabjous]

The nose in the first matches the death mask best, but those two seem less distinctive nasally than the rest.

 

[epenguin]

Don't know about his face, but his hair is legendary, according to some.

But it isn't necessarily his, fairly obviously in some of the pics it is a wig, as was usual in his times.

 

[mjc123]

I think the first is John Newton (author of Amazing Grace). As far as I know Isaac was never a clergyman. I and J are sometimes used interchangeably in old books (e.g. Iulius Caesar in the First Folio).