Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus

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OriginalCarl 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

Promoted File:Carl von Linné.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 21:47, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]