I'll just make something up. Vaguely 19-year-old-looking guy in a powdered wig, it will be fiiiine.
That's probably exactly what the commissioned painter did!
Actually, wait, wait, that reminds me. Peter's younger brother was stationed in Wesel a few months before the execution-in-effigy. I wonder if he got used as a model for general family resemblance, or at least had to serve as a consultant for what his brother looked like, before attending his execution.
D-:
Btw, that reminds me, are you familiar with the descriptions of Peter's appearance? From rheinsberg:
Lehndorff...has this to say about his appearance: "He had an attractive face and an honest-looking physiognomy, such that you didn't notice his somewhat cross-eyed gaze, unlike in most cases of squints."
Friedrich Wilhelm, trying to get Peter arrested in London after the escape, gives out this description of the fugitive: "medium height, straight, thin, brown, a little pallid, and squint-eyed" (Preuss, vol 2 appendix, p. 157; translation Lavisse, p. 239).
Eulogy: He was above middle height [but middle height by FW's standards, remember :P], and his eyes were peculiar, but once you got used to it, it wasn't bothersome.
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Re: Acrylic Adventures
Date: 2020-10-24 07:50 pm (UTC)That's probably exactly what the commissioned painter did!
Actually, wait, wait, that reminds me. Peter's younger brother was stationed in Wesel a few months before the execution-in-effigy. I wonder if he got used as a model for general family resemblance, or at least had to serve as a consultant for what his brother looked like, before attending his execution.
D-:
Btw, that reminds me, are you familiar with the descriptions of Peter's appearance? From
Lehndorff...has this to say about his appearance: "He had an attractive face and an honest-looking physiognomy, such that you didn't notice his somewhat cross-eyed gaze, unlike in most cases of squints."
Friedrich Wilhelm, trying to get Peter arrested in London after the escape, gives out this description of the fugitive: "medium height, straight, thin, brown, a little pallid, and squint-eyed" (Preuss, vol 2 appendix, p. 157; translation Lavisse, p. 239).
Eulogy: He was above middle height [but middle height by FW's standards, remember :P], and his eyes were peculiar, but once you got used to it, it wasn't bothersome.