Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia by Johann Georg Ziesenis

The Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia by Johann Georg Ziesenis is a portrait of Frederick the Great painted by the German-Danish painter Johann Georg Ziesenis in 1763.

[4] However, the facial features in this portrait appear highly idealized, which is inconsistent with the fact that Frederick considered himself very ugly[5] and at the end of the Seven Years' War "complained in his letters of how much weight he had lost and how thin, fragile, and gray he had become.

On 10 October 2009, the painting, last put on public display in 1937 at the Lower Saxony State Museum, was offered by the Bremen auction house Bolland & Marotz and sold at a price of 670,000 euros.

[7] Due to the historical significance of the painting, it was registered in the directory of German cultural heritage.

[8] It is believed that there are two copies which were given to the Duchess (now in the Heidelberg Palatinate Museum) and to George III of the United Kingdom (now in the Royal Collection).