Name: Leopold and Wolfgang Mozart Artist: Year, Place: , Medium: Painting Owner: Royal College of Music, London Comments:
Name: Mozart Artist: Martin Knoller Year, Place: 1773, Milan Medium: Miniature, oils on ivory Owner: Comments: Nannerl is thought to have received this portrait from her brother and to have referred to it after Mozart's death as making him look "sickly and yellow" as a result of illness.
Name: Leopold Mozart Artist: Based on Johann Nepomuk della Croce Year, Place: 1781, Medium: Oils Owner: Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Comments:
Name: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze Year, Place: 1763-64, Paris Medium: Oil on canvas 34x45 cm Owner: Yale University Comments: Recent claims by biometrician Martin Braun, along with Mozart leacturer Daniel Leeson, proclaim this portrait to be a young Mozart. Other "researchers" from the murky Wikipedia School of anonymous experts scoff at the idea.
The painting is a solid candidate for a complete forensic examination to settle the matter.
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Name: Mozart Artist: Joseph Grassi Year, Place: 1785, Medium: Miniature, oils on porcelain Owner: Comments: Some time ago Koechel made headlines by the discovery of an unknown Mozart painting. "In 1988 I found in Moscow a portrait which has been missing for more than 200 years, done by the artist Joseph Grassi. He belonged to Mozart's circle of friends. I think it is the most artistic and similar-looking portrait of Mozart. However, dyed-in-the-wool Mozart lovers have difficulties to free themselves of the hitherto known pictures - despite of their rather moderate quality and resemblance."
Name: Constanze Mozart, nee Weber Artist: Anonymous Year, Place: 1840, Medium: Photograph Owner: Altötting museum Comments: The photo is of a small party of people in front of the house of composer Max Keller in Altötting and includes Keller and his family. Constanza would have been 78. Wikepedia (quoting unnamed Mozart scholars) claims that its authenticity is much doubted, because the picture was certainly taken with a short exposure that for technical reasons was not yet possible in 1840. However, photographic scholars seem to have clearly demonstrated that such technical expertise was around by 1838.
