Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

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Original – Carl Linnaeus, an 18th century Swedish biologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. This painting is from 1775

Reason

A solid portrait painting of a pretty significant person.

Articles in which this image appears

Carl Linnaeus, Species, Sweden

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Science and engineering

Creator

Alexander Roslin

• Support as nominator – Երևանցի ^talk 21:46, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Very useful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:18, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Old Linné. The only thing Swedes can be really proud of. Hafspajen (talk) 02:09, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support EV. I love him very much. Alborzagros (talk) 07:30, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support Well-shot photo that is helpful in the article on the subject. Jusdafax 04:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support.  ^B E _C K ^Y _S A ^{Y L} E _S  21:21, 6 January 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Carl von Linné.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)