One of a number of anonymous photos I picked up the other day--and yes, he is beautiful.
(I think.) One imagines an interracial element--something in his
appearance evokes those now-quaint-sounding taxonomic terms of the later
nineteenth century:
quadroon, octoroon,
terceron, mustee, and the like. See Dion Boucicault's plays, or
Uncle Tom's Cabin.