Haydn in 1791 This stipple engraving is by Georg Siegmund Facius (c. 1750–1814) who published it on 3 August 1807. It was based on a portrait, commissioned by the Prince of Wales during Haydn’s first London visit, by John Hoppner (1758–1810; painter to the Prince from 1789), one of the most important portraitists in London after the death of Sir Joshua Reynolds. The engraving omits the lower part of the portrait: the composer held a quill pen in his right hand and his left rested on the keyboard of either a forte piano or a harpsichord. | 
