Question - 496

Identify him.

Answer: Though he does look like the generic 19th century geriatric (Walt Whitman, Darwin, Mendel and John Muir were among the guesses), there is a clue behind him. This is Claude Monet standing in his beloved gardens at Giverny. v.chandrashekar, Matti Tapaninen, Kamal Rathi, Jaggi, White Jack and Black Lagoon and an anon got it. Well done.