The UK is having its own Hide/Seek moment.

A painting that for years was thought to be of an unnamed woman, made by the artist Gilbert Stuart, has now been acknowledged instead as a portrait of Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont, who lived an exceptionally interesting life. (She is namesake for the UK-based Beaumont Society.)

The Chevalier d'Eon was a spy, a diplomat, a soldier, and a Freemason who helped lead the negotiation of the Peace of Paris in 1763, ending the seven-years' war between England and France, and who later offered to lead a regiment of female soldiers against the Habsburgs. She lived a high-profile life, and didn't much worry about whether her facial-hair stubble contrasted with her dresses.

That stubble is what led to the rediscovery of her identity in the painting. Read the whole story, and check out the big (I presume military) medal on her dress. Her portrait now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London, the first of its kind to be openly seen there.