Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Elector John Frederick of Saxony (link shows his Wikipedia page) is shown, with a different coloration image, by its current-location page (Google translated).Earlier, the artist also did this portrait of him (click for click-to-humongous image)
described by its current-location page (Google translated). The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated Italian Wikipedia page has more) and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Seventh (actually the one pointed to hasn’t been in the blog; but, it has a link to its prior one, as do the others), of the 9 works, by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.
The Elector is rather older, but I’m reminded of two portraits I saw in the Rijksmuseum of a merchant and his son. Dad hath a lean and hungry look, Junior very puffed. I was reminded of stories of Salem, MA merchant families in which Grandpa started a fortune, Dad maintained and built it, and Sonnyboy lost it all in self-indulgence.
He was called “John the Magnanimous”. He might’ve been “big-hearted”, or he might have been just plain “big”! Of course, it would take a big heart to pump blood through a large fellow like John!
BE THIS GUY about 10 years ago
Hope the wife doesn’t find out I took her stole.
watmiwori about 10 years ago
You really NEED a lace collar, or a ruff, or SOMETHING!
quebradillas about 10 years ago
Yes, I know. The circus maximus is in town.
orinoco womble about 10 years ago
Nero Wolfe’s graduation photo.
jack fairbanks about 10 years ago
James Earl Jones finds that the Michael Jackson skin cream actually works
Coyoty Premium Member about 10 years ago
I didn’t know Orson Welles did Shakespeare.
BlackTie about 10 years ago
Huge hands, little head
puddlesplatt about 10 years ago
Orson Wells in ‘Falstaff’
Enoki about 10 years ago
Dom DeLouise, the Krispy Kreme years….
mabrndt Premium Member about 10 years ago
Click-to-enlarge image can be found here, or at Mr. Melcher’s blog entry.Elector John Frederick of Saxony (link shows his Wikipedia page) is shown, with a different coloration image, by its current-location page (Google translated).Earlier, the artist also did this portrait of him (click for click-to-humongous image)
described by its current-location page (Google translated). The artist’s Wikipedia page (Google translated Italian Wikipedia page has more) and collection (many more under Subcategories at each level).Seventh (actually the one pointed to hasn’t been in the blog; but, it has a link to its prior one, as do the others), of the 9 works, by this artist, that have, so far, appeared in Mr. Melcher’s blog, to also appear here.ladykat about 10 years ago
Orson Welles after his bath, in his nightgown
PoodleGroomer about 10 years ago
Who could have known that there was hippo DNA in the transporter.
Fuddy Duddy about 10 years ago
Sebastian Cabot publicity still from “Checkmate”.
finale about 10 years ago
That breastplate must weigh 150 lbs. to cover that much.
BlackTie about 10 years ago
The Fat Man wondering where the heck Jake went
gcarlson about 10 years ago
Welles’ Macbeth movie is the best overall treatment I’ve ever seen (even counting the time I played the Thane of Ross).
gcarlson about 10 years ago
The Elector is rather older, but I’m reminded of two portraits I saw in the Rijksmuseum of a merchant and his son. Dad hath a lean and hungry look, Junior very puffed. I was reminded of stories of Salem, MA merchant families in which Grandpa started a fortune, Dad maintained and built it, and Sonnyboy lost it all in self-indulgence.
Tandembuzz about 10 years ago
He was called “John the Magnanimous”. He might’ve been “big-hearted”, or he might have been just plain “big”! Of course, it would take a big heart to pump blood through a large fellow like John!
mabrndt Premium Member about 10 years ago
Here is another work by this artist.