'My grandmother was a sister of the French artist Vernet...'

[charleygirl]

While browsing around for 18th century artists' work I came across portraits of Sherlock Holmes's great-uncle, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather.



Claude Joseph Vernet, Holmes's great-great-grandfather, by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun:



Robert Lefefre's portrait of Holmes's great-grandfather, Carle Vernet:



A self-portrait by Horace Vernet, brother of Holmes's grandmother:



Something of a 'family resemblance' in the last one, don't you think?