“Baron Freidrich Von Frankenstein, (That’s Fronken-Steen!), being fitted for his first Formal Village Barn Dance and Barbecue”….The Event was a Roaring Success….
Another repeat.Modestly enlarged image can be found here, or at the only work, by this artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden (link shows his Wikipedia page, Google translated Swedish WIkipedia page has more) is part of a public collection. If I find out where, I’ll post it later. The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page has more) and collection (more under Subcategories at each level).
Oscar was French. The last of the Vasas was approaching death without an heir, so the Riksdag, hoping to get on Napoleon’s good side, elected one of his Marshalls, Bernadotte, as heir; on the king’s death, Bernadotte was crowned as Carl XIV John. Opinion is divided as to whether Bernadotte was personally ambitious or thought Napoleon had betrayed the Revolution, but he involved Sweden in the coalition that defeated Napoleon at Leipzig.
My great-great grandfather was reportedly a friend of Oscar’s, and his father of Bernadotte, to the point of moving from France to Sweden with him. Hence I consider myself 97% Swedish and 3% French.
margueritem over 11 years ago
When he became King, they named a can of sardines after him.
el8 over 11 years ago
Does anyone else hear “poink!”?
Veridian over 11 years ago
“Baron Freidrich Von Frankenstein, (That’s Fronken-Steen!), being fitted for his first Formal Village Barn Dance and Barbecue”….The Event was a Roaring Success….
Linguist over 11 years ago
It’s I Gor to you !
Linguist over 11 years ago
" My neck is killing me ! "
pcolli over 11 years ago
“Am I too late for the New Romantic revival?”
el8 over 11 years ago
“If you’re blue, and you don’t know where to go to, why don’t you go where fashion sits… " – Dr. Frederick Frankenstein
el8 over 11 years ago
Or it could be Michael Nesmith costumed for a Monkees’ skit.
bluskies over 11 years ago
They award the “stache” and ignore the hairdo? Criminal.
orinoco womble over 11 years ago
Look! It’s Eric Idle!
Coyoty Premium Member over 11 years ago
Hello, Dali.
J Short over 11 years ago
Another failed audition to replace Freddy Mercury.
celeconecca over 11 years ago
reminds me of Peter Sellers
YatInExile over 11 years ago
He held the title until Kaiser Wilhelm II came along.
mabrndt Premium Member over 11 years ago
Another repeat.Modestly enlarged image can be found here, or at the only work, by this artist, so far, to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.Crown Prince Oscar of Sweden (link shows his Wikipedia page, Google translated Swedish WIkipedia page has more) is part of a public collection. If I find out where, I’ll post it later. The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page has more) and collection (more under Subcategories at each level).
puddlesplatt over 11 years ago
Peter Sellers in the Mouse that …
2Goldfish over 11 years ago
Looks like Gene Wilder in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” to me.
gcarlson over 11 years ago
Oscar was French. The last of the Vasas was approaching death without an heir, so the Riksdag, hoping to get on Napoleon’s good side, elected one of his Marshalls, Bernadotte, as heir; on the king’s death, Bernadotte was crowned as Carl XIV John. Opinion is divided as to whether Bernadotte was personally ambitious or thought Napoleon had betrayed the Revolution, but he involved Sweden in the coalition that defeated Napoleon at Leipzig.
gcarlson over 11 years ago
My great-great grandfather was reportedly a friend of Oscar’s, and his father of Bernadotte, to the point of moving from France to Sweden with him. Hence I consider myself 97% Swedish and 3% French.
Call me Ishmael over 11 years ago
Oskar was Michael Jackson’s unachievable role model – Jackson’s tailors just couldn’t scale those amazing sartorial heights.
ossiningaling over 11 years ago
It’s where Princess Offa hangs her earrings.