"Painting Eureka's chamber orchestra" Topic

How would you paint them? Would they be in different color coats, or all the same?

I already know how to paint Violtaire and Fritz. Just Google them!

Aren't they based on the painting with this Wikipedia article ?

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I have a few colour/palette suggestions here: link

My research was inconclusive as to whether "bands" such as this would have worn uniforms or liveries, but if the players had been drawn from a European nobleman's in-house court orchestra, then it is quite possible that they would have worn some sort of livery. But who knows? It's up to you, to be honest, I think.

Giles

Not different from today – you might find an ensemble that dresses uniformly, but chances are better that they wear just their normal fine outfits.

I do have the set, too, and will likely give them different (though similar) colours. If you feel like dressing them alike, there is nothing in that should stop you.

Depends on what you want them to be: professional musicians hired for some occasion, or gentlemen indulging in artistic pastime.

Any musician in the employ of a noble family would be regarded as a servant and wear the family livery, exactly the same as a butler or groom.

Even a musician as famous as Joseph Haydn wore the livery of the Ezterhazy family for most of his working life, until moving to London and self employment. This would certainly have been the case for the whole of the 18C.

Ok.
What was the livery of the household of Fritz?

Of course I want them as scenery for sedan chair races so I may as well use my own livery.

Giles – What on earth did you use to paint the notes on the sheet music?!?! An 0000000000000?????????

I like how the coats of the musician's in Menzel's painting of Frederick the Great playing the flute are all in different dark looking colors. Almost as if each of these men is their own musician, has their own style, and have gotten together, perhaps organized by Bach himself, to play for a special event for Frederick.