Talk:Samuel Fraunces/Archive 3

Portrait not of Fraunces


Fraunces Tavern Museum has published new research on the portrait long identified as depicting Samuel Fraunces: http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/samuel-fraunces-revealed

It appears that the oil-on-canvas portrait to the right, purchased by the Sons of the Revolution in 1913, is not of Samuel Fraunces. In 2017 German historian Arthur Kuhle recognized the sitter in Fraunces Tavern's oil-on-canvas portrait as being the same as the unidentified sitter in a portrait titled Cavalier at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, Germany. Kuhle was researching Frederick the Great and his court painters, Antoine Pesne and Joachim Martin Falbe. He suspects that the Fraunces Tavern portrait depicts a member of the Prussian king's inner circle, perhaps Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764) or Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf (1708-1758).

The similarity is striking.

User:BoringHistoryGuy added references and text noting this. I have moved the likely inaccurate portrait down to the "Portraits" section of the article, gussied up the reference, and moved some stuff around.

Best, TuckerResearch (talk) 23:55, 6 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Nicely done, here and in the article. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 12:35, 7 March 2019 (UTC)