Only Connect - Ludwig Van Beethoven <> Felix Mendelssohn

How are these sitters connected?

 Ludwig van Beethoven by Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, after Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1823) NPG D13759

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy by Conrad Cook, published by William Mackenzie, after Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton mid 19th century NPG D5248

The connection
Felix Mendelssohn visited Baroness Dorothea von Ertmann in 1831. He was seeking an echo of Beethoven, who had been in love with the Baroness.

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