User blog comment:D.Ryan/Andrew Ryan in Bioshock 2/@comment-201.35.176.100-20140306065246/@comment-1500935-20140306193434

If you want a picture that doesn't look like him try the "From the desk of Andrew Ryan" one. Also I honestly think they did a better game model for Andrew Ryan in BioShock 2. Let me go in details:

For the difference of portraits, I believe the second one would be more accurate for when BioShock happens. To be honest, the problem with some of the portraits in the first game is that some of the depicted characters seem too much younger on them, like if those portraits were taken at their first arrival in Rapture. For example, Steinman looks older on an advertismenent for his clinic as opposed to his photo, and I don't believe he would keep the same posters for more than a year or so. Same goes for Langford which look more like she just obtained her scientific license, while on her picture on the monitors outside her lab she looks more to be in her 40s with her shorter hairstyle. Even Tenenbaum wouldn't look like she does on her first portrait when she left Rapture's society on her quest of redemption with the Little Sisters.

Now back to Andrew Ryan: how could he look like so fresh on his portrait when he was over his 50s? Even his first game model look older. However on the second portrait, he may look like a zombie but anyone would be at his age and with the stressful issues he had to deal with to secure his city.

In the end, BioShock 2 had its issues but this isn't one of them. And saying they couldn't reuse his portrait is bullshit, as they did reuse Fontaine's, among several other assets of the first game.