Is your face a work of art? Google app could tell you

Many have dreamed of being compared with the timeless beauty of the Mona Lisa or the Girl With a Pearl Earring.

Brave members of the public now have their chance, as long as they are willing to take the risk of being likened to someone altogether less flattering.

Google has launched a light-hearted online game, matching modern day faces with their doppelgangers in fine art history.

The Google Arts & Culture app compares photographs entered by users with paintings from centuries’ past.

Many of those trying it for the first time were left amused as the app matched them with wildly different, though visually similar, portraits, in which they changed gender or aged decades.

Even celebrities got in on the action, sharing their results on social media accounts.

American actress Kate Hudson, who has recently had her blonde hair cut short, matched with Portrait of a Boy, attributed to Pierpont Limner.

Amanda Seyfried posted her doppelganger, the star of Clewin Harcourt’s One Summer Afternoon, remarking: “It does feel like summer today.”

Members of the public posted matches from Henrick Hooft, a 17th century mayor from Amsterdam, to Elvis Presley, captured in a painting in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

Unfortunately those who wish to test their own match in Britain may have some time to wait, as Google confirmed there are no current plans to expand the app from the US.

A spokesman for Google said: "This is an experiment that’s only available in parts of the US right now, but we’re glad people are having so much fun matching their selfies to works of art."