Portrait of Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor born in 1480, had studied nautical charts along with cosmographer Rui Faleiro, searching for a route to the Maluku Islands via the South Atlantic.
Having failed in his attempt to get the Portuguese monarch to sponsor his voyage, he traveled to the Spanish Court, where he received the backing of Charles I. This enabled him to undertake a voyage with a fleet of five ships. He finally found the route he was looking for in 1520, through a labyrinth of islands in the Pacific Ocean. Magellan died in battle against the inhabitants of the island of Cebu, in modern-day Philippines.
This 19th-century portrait, by an anonymous Spanish artist, has many artistic similarities to the portrait of Juan Sebastián Elcano, meaning they could have been painted by the same person.