This is the earliest known portrait of a transvestite. Called Chevalier D'Eon, it is of Charles D'Eo

This is the earliest known portrait of a transvestite. Called Chevalier D'Eon, it is of Charles D'Eon, who lived the second half of his life as a woman. It started in 1763, when he was hiding from the French ambassador in London. Charles had worked for the ambassador, and when Charles made public some embarrassing secret documents after a falling-out, he accused the ambassador of trying to kill him and went into hiding…as a woman. No one would catch him now! For seven years, anyway. When rumors about his gender began in 1770, Charles demanded that the French government pay his debts and they agreed, scared he would expose more secrets like their plans to invade England. Part of the agreement was that he would remain dressed like a woman, which he did until his death. Painting by Thomas Stewart. -- source link
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