Another Mozart portrait is proved to be authentic · 2008-03-17 18:32
A portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that lay unidentified for more than 200 years has been proved to be authentic, according to an expert on the composer.
Professor Cliff Eisen from London's King's College has spent more than a year trying to confirm that the picture was of Mozart, who died in 1791.
He said: "This is arguably the most important Mozart portrait to be discovered since the composer's death." Its significance came to light after it was bought by a US collector in 2005.
The portrait of Mozart shows the composer in profile in a red jacket.
Prof Eisen said the coat was almost exactly the same as one Mozart described to his father in a letter on 28 September 1782, even down to the buttons, BBC reports.
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