Four, perhaps only three, contemporary portraits of Bach are known. One is in the possession of the firm of Peters at Leipzig and once belonged to Carl Philipp Emmanuel’s daughter, who with inherited impiety sold it to a Leipzig flute player. The second hung in St. Thomas’ School and is reproduced at p. 48 of this volume. It was painted in 1746 and restored in 1913. Both portraits are by Elias Gottlieb Haussmann, Court Painter at Dresden. The third portrait belonged to Bach’s last pupil, Kittel, and used to hang on the Organ at Erfurt, whence it disappeared after 1809, during the Napoleonic wars. Recently Professor Fritz Volbach of Mainz has discovered a fourth portrait, which is printed at p. 92 of the present volume. He supposes it to be none other than the Erfurt portrait, as indeed it well may be, since it represents a man of some sixty years, austere in countenance, but of a dignity that is not so apparent in Haussmann’s portraiture.(116) Bach left no will. In consequence his widow, Anna Magdalena, burdened with the charge of a step-daughter and two daughters, was entitled to only one-third of her husband’s estate. Neither Carl Philipp Emmanuel nor Wilhelm Friedemann was her own child. But the fact cannot excuse gross neglect of their father’s widow. Her own sons were in a position to make such a contribution to her income as would at least have kept want from her door. In fact she was permitted to become dependent on public charity, and died, an alms-woman, on February 27, 1760, nearly ten years after her great husband. The three daughters survived her. One died in 1774, the second in 1781. The third, Regine Susanna, survived them, her want relieved by gifts from a public that at last was awakening to the grandeur of her father. Beethoven contributed generously. Regine Susanna died in December 1809, the last of Bach’s children. In 1845 her nephew, Johann Christoph Friedrich’s son, also died. With him the line of Johann Sebastian Bach expired. [Johann Sebastian Bach, circa 1746. From the picture by Haussmann.] Johann Sebastian Bach, circa 1746. _From the picture by Haussmann._ CHAPTER III. BACH AS A CLAVIER PLAYER