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SERIOUSLY

SERIOUSLY what are we looking at here white skin green eyes/

Rodman de Kay Gilder described the oil portrait in 1936: "With his pleasant dark face and his brown eyes, curls, soft mouth and tapering fingers, and the beginnings of a double chin, looking as if he himself appreciated the good food and drink for which he was famous." GramereC 15:40, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

NOT a portrait of Samuel Fraunces

Portrait of Unknown Gentleman, unknown artist, oil on canvas, Fraunces Tavern Museum, New York City. This portrait was formerly identified as Samuel Fraunces but now appears to be the portrait of a gentleman in the court of Prussian ruler Frederick the Great

The oil-on-canvas portrait, long identified as depicting Samuel Fraunces and exhibited at Fraunces Tavern since 1913, was recently discredited by new evidence. In 2017 German historian Arthur Kuhle recognized the sitter in Fraunces Tavern's 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 and the Dresden portrait depict a member of the Prussian king's royal court.

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This portrait should be renamed. I am posting too on Wikimedia Commons. TuckerResearch (talk) 18:48, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

This has now been renamed on Commons and thus here. Thank you. TuckerResearch (talk) 18:28, 20 February 2024 (UTC)