Death masks recreate face of Bonnie Prince Charlie

Researchers accidental they person created the "most lifelike" reconstruction of the look of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

A squad astatine the University of Dundee's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification utilized decease masks to recreate the Scottish prince's looks.

After his decease successful 1788, a formed of the prince's look was taken, which was communal for notable figures astatine the time.

This was painstakingly photographed and mapped on with bundle allowing the experts to "de-age" the prince.

Charles Edward Stuart was renowned for his bully looks and has captivated a caller procreation of audiences done the TV amusement Outlander.

The resulting images amusement the prince with blond ringlets, wearing a achromatic shirt, and with blotchy patches connected his skin.

It recreates however helium could person looked astatine the clip of the Jacobite rising, wherever helium was unsuccessful successful his effort to reconstruct his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, to the British throne.

Barbora Vesela, a masters pupil who initiated the project, said: "I person looked astatine erstwhile reconstructions of humanities figures and was funny arsenic to however these could beryllium done differently.

"I wanted to make an representation of what helium would person looked similar during the Jacobite rising.

"There are decease masks of Bonnie Prince Charlie that are accessible, portion immoderate are successful backstage collections.

"We besides cognize that helium suffered a changeable earlier helium died, truthful that made the process of property regression adjacent much absorbing to me."

In 1745, Prince Charles Edward Stuart sought to regain the British throne for his begetter erstwhile helium was aged conscionable 24.

Despite immoderate archetypal successes connected the battlefield, his service was defeated astatine the Battle of Culloden, adjacent Inverness, successful April 1746.

Bonnie Prince Charlie spent the adjacent 5 months arsenic a fugitive earlier fleeing to France and surviving connected the continent for the remainder of his life.

He died successful Palazzo Muti successful Rome, astatine the property of 67, aft suffering a stroke.

After his death, a formed of the prince's look was taken, which was communal for notable figures astatine the time.

Researchers examined copies of the masks, astatine Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, and The Hunterian astatine the University of Glasgow, creating a composite implicit respective months.

Ms Vesela took photographs from each astir the masks and utilized bundle to marque a 3D exemplary utilizing astir 500 images.

She said: "It has been a pleasance to enactment with these artefacts. The entree I person been fixed has been incredible.

"There are moments, erstwhile you are moving with the masks, that it abruptly strikes you that this was erstwhile a surviving person.

"We don't thin to deliberation astir the property of radical erstwhile we survey history, but Prince Charlie was conscionable 24 years aged erstwhile helium landed successful Scotland and to visualise however young helium was astatine this pivotal infinitesimal successful past is fascinating.

"Hopefully this recreation encourages radical to deliberation astir him arsenic a person, alternatively of conscionable a legend."

The enactment volition diagnostic arsenic portion of the University of Dundee's yearly Masters Show, which opens to the nationalist connected Saturday.