In defense of the old portrait It is a pity that having so many portraits of Peter III the article is illustrated by a coin The coin is contemporaneous but the portrait is simple and non descriptive However the portrait of the Nuova Cronica is more adequate Offers an image of the King is the most old portrait of him in Commons was painted only two or three decades after his death and has resemblance to the true face of the King recently reconstruced by computer using his skull and shows real characteristics of his appearance Peter III dyed his hair to blonde which justifies that in the portrait the king appears with blond hair and brown beard