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mildred_of_midgard ([personal profile] mildred_of_midgard) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2019-11-04 09:02 am (UTC)

Re: Fritz's death

Oh, and I forgot to mention there's a death mask, so we can get a rough sense of what he looked like (in 1786, with no teeth, and probably having lost some weight). He didn't actually sit for his portraits after he became king (man after my own heart), so they represent best attempts from people working from memory and may be less accurate than most such portraits? On the other hand, the older he got, the less they were probably trying to flatter him, so who knows? "Grumpy old king who won't even sit for the portrait can take what he gets." :P

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