The secret of the unknown painter

This is August Wilhelm von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1662-1731) playing the lute. His wife Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg (1683-1767) is sitting next to him, looking annoyed. My husband thinks it’s because August Wilhelm can only play ‘Wonderwall’. I say, as long as August Wilhelm doesn’t have the bored, croaky voice of the Oasis singer, he’ll be […]