Very important stuff regarding new Targs portraits

[Amok]

As some of you know Bantam Dell Publishing Group (a division of Random House Inc.) is working on new ASOIAF art book. They asked me for some old portraits (which I provided) and now the time has come for some new ones. The problem is that GRRM is quite busy now (as I'm sure all of you know), so he cannot provide the descriptions for new portraits.

Here's the part of the letter regarding new art:

"I know that you wanted character descriptions from George before you got started on the 22 new portraits we had discussed. But when this was mentioned to George, He did express a firm faith in your ability to search most of this information out in the books for yourself. According to George, this is, in fact, how you had completed the previous portraits which is what drew George to your work in the first place. And although George does acknowledge that there are a few characters for which he will need to give descriptions, he assures me that the majority of these new faces are sufficiently described in the novels".

That's when I thought of you 8-) I remember that we used to cooperate really well, when I did the original portrait gallery, so now I want to check if you want to help to create new Targs portraits. I think it will be fun.

Anyway, here's the list of 22 portraits:

the nine mistresses of King Aegon IV
1. Falena Stokeworth
2. Merry Meg
3. Cassella Vaith
4. Bellegere Otherys, the Black Pearl of Braavos
5. Barba Bracken
6. Mysella (Missy) Blackwood
7. Bethany Bracken
8. Jeyne Lothston
9. Serenei of Lys

some Targaryens as yet undepicted
10. Prince Aemon the Dragonknight, brother to Aegon IV
11. Prince Rhaegar, the Mad King's son (yay!)
12. his wife, Elia Martell, Princess of Dorne, with her two children
13. Baelor Breakspear, son of King Daeron II

various other important players in Westeros, past and present,
12. Serwyn of the Mirror Shield, legendary knight
13. Florian the Fool, legendary knight
14. Garth Greenhand, the gardener king
15. Bran the Builder
16. Lann the Clever
17. Maelys the Monstrous, last of the Blackfyre Pretenders,
18. Harren the Black
19. Torrhen Stark, the King Who Knelt
20. Nymeria of the Ten Thousand Ships
21. Serwyn of the Mirror Shield, legendary knight
22. Florian the Fool, legendary knight

Let me know if you're on board, so we can make this thing work. And please spread the word, because this is really important.

Cool!

You listed these twice, though:
21. Serwyn of the Mirror Shield, legendary knight
22. Florian the Fool, legendary knight

[Winterfell]

Ah this is amazing news!!! I'll work on looking some characters up for you

[Winterfell]

This is what I've found so far:

Baelor “breakspear” Targaryen
The Hedge Knight, pg 188

“Even seated he looked to be a head taller than the other, to judge from the long straight legs stretched out before him. His short cropped hair was dark and peppered with grey, his strong jaw clean shaven. His nose looked as though it had been broken more than once. Though he was dressed very plainly, in green doublet, brown mantle, and scuffed boots, there was a weight to him, a sense of power and certainty.”


Rhaegar Targaryen
AFFC (Cersei), pg 361-62

“Many a night she had watched prince Rhaegar in the hall, playing his silver-stringed harp with those long elegant fingers of his. Had any man ever been so beautiful?”

“When she had been presented to him, Cersei had almost drowned in the depths of his sad purple eyes.”

SOS (Daenarys), pg 587

“There was a melancholy to prince Rhaegar, a sense of doom. He was born in grief…and that shadow hung over him all his days.


Elia Martell/Targaryen
AFFC (Cersei), 361

“Feeble Dornish princess with black eyes and a flat chest.”


Florian the Fool
ACOK (Sansa), 286

“Florian was homely too, but not so old."

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[Miyax]

I'll try to give a hand, once I get my books out of the moving boxes...

Originally Posted by Amok

13. Baelor Breakspear, son of King Daeron II

I found the portrait of Baelor Breakspear that you've already done to be very good and quite the way he was described in the Hedge Knight.

As for the others you mentioned, I'll try to look up for them, though I don't remember any description of Aegon's mistresses.

[Dagordur]

whow, looks like it was just the wrong time for me to go awol. I'll see what I can do, though not before tomorrow. this is awesome news anyway 8-)

Amok, I have some private information which I'll be sending you, information Linda and I have had from George previously that concerns Aegon's mistresses.

[Amok]

Thanks guys! I knew we can count on you!

I appreciate that there will be a portrait of the Dragonknight. But there still should be portraits of Prince Duncan the Small (Aegon's V. first son) and Queen Rhaella Targaryen (Aerys II. sister-wife).

As a reader, the only description I can come up with is Rhaegar Targaryen's. I choose to cite the passage where he described as a living man when he appears to Daenerys as a vision from the past in the House of the Undying in ACoK:

Daenerys first takes the image of Rhaegar Targaryen for her brother Viserys, so it's most likely you draw them quite alike, especially their faces.

'The man had her brother's [Viserys's] hair, but he was taller, and his eyes were a dark indigo rather than lilac [as Viserys's had been].' ACoK 701

As Rhaegar Targaryen was a warrior - although he did not like to be it - another difference between Viserys and Rhaegar would be that the latter would have been built stronger than the former.

Little Prince Aegon Targaryen, Rhaegar's son, had the Targaryen looks. So you probably have to paint a babe with purple eyes and thin silver-gold hair.
Princess Rhaenys looked more like her mother. I don't know if we knew the colour of her eyes, but she most likely had dark hair. She should have her kitten with her, the one she named Balerion.
If you draw both children near the Sack of King's Landing then Rhaenys would be a girl between two and three years and Aegon about one year.