Peter Keith (whom i included because it could be fun, i hope i can somehow unearth a better portrait than the picture on wikipedia)
AAAH, sorry, I've been meaning to warn you away from trusting this one! Yes, Wikipedia and Alamy assign it to Peter Keith, but my further googling assigns it to James Francis Edward Keith. I'm inclined to think James is right, because it matches every other painting of him, *and* because he's wearing the star and the ribbon of the Order of the Black Eagle, which James was awarded, and to my knowledge, Peter was not. Peter had a very undistinguished career.
Can you tell I researched the question of whether there exists a portrait of Peter Keith very hard in the last year? :D He's one of my low-key faves.
I didn't find any, alas, but I'm still hoping one turns up. The larger our fandom grows, the better our chances!
(The only thing I've turned up wrt Peter paintings is the one that FW had commissioned so he could be hanged in effigy, and which was paid for by selling off the belongings Peter had left behind in his quarters in Wesel. Somehow I doubt that one was preserved. :P)
So far there are doodles of Katte, Fredersdorf, Peter Keith (whom i included because it could be fun, i hope i can somehow unearth a better portrait than the picture on wikipedia), Caesarion, Algarotti, Voltaire, Heinrich, Wilhelmine and two of Fritz, one young and one old.
You are AWESOME. I bow to your artistic prolificacy!
Re: Acrylic Adventures
AAAH, sorry, I've been meaning to warn you away from trusting this one! Yes, Wikipedia and Alamy assign it to Peter Keith, but my further googling assigns it to James Francis Edward Keith. I'm inclined to think James is right, because it matches every other painting of him, *and* because he's wearing the star and the ribbon of the Order of the Black Eagle, which James was awarded, and to my knowledge, Peter was not. Peter had a very undistinguished career.
Here it is captioned as James Keith.
Here are some other portraits that it strongly resembles:
* This one.
* This other one.
* This one in color.
* The chin(s) on this statue.
* The ribbon on the same statue.
Can you tell I researched the question of whether there exists a portrait of Peter Keith very hard in the last year? :D He's one of my low-key faves.
I didn't find any, alas, but I'm still hoping one turns up. The larger our fandom grows, the better our chances!
(The only thing I've turned up wrt Peter paintings is the one that FW had commissioned so he could be hanged in effigy, and which was paid for by selling off the belongings Peter had left behind in his quarters in Wesel. Somehow I doubt that one was preserved. :P)
So far there are doodles of Katte, Fredersdorf, Peter Keith (whom i included because it could be fun, i hope i can somehow unearth a better portrait than the picture on wikipedia), Caesarion, Algarotti, Voltaire, Heinrich, Wilhelmine and two of Fritz, one young and one old.
You are AWESOME. I bow to your artistic prolificacy!
whether I should include The Parents or not
Only if I can hang FW's in effigy. :P
*massive cheers for your artistic endeavors*