Mendelssohn in ?1836 The original engraving (here reproduced by lithographic transfer) was by Albert Henry Payne (1812–1902: he was born in London but became a German citizen) and W.C. Wrankmore; the head is described as ‘after Hildebrand’. Ferdinand-Theodor Hildebrandt (1804–74) was a close friend of the composer (himself an accomplished amateur artist) and they undertook a sight-seeing trip together from Rome to Naples in 1831. Hildebrandt's portrait was commissioned by Henrietta Voigt, a member of Robert Schumann’s circle and a fine amateur pianist, in the autumn of 1835. | 
