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The last time he mentioned the break with Prince Beethoven in a letter to his nephew dated July 13, 1825: “In the case of Likhnovsky (deceased), I already experienced how much these so-called noble gentlemen dislike when the artist is already equal to them “He also lives in abundance.” Beethoven didn’t live “in abundance” in 1806, even assuming that Count Razumovsky and Count Oppersdorf paid him an advance on account of the ordered compositions. His fees could not be compared with the income of his patrons. But the theme of the equality of the aristocrats of the spirit with aristocrats of blood, of course, in 1806 sounded extremely weighty for Beethoven. And the portrait, made in duplicate by Neugass, expressed this idea quite clearly. It remains to add that the option, stored in the Lichnovsky family, is now in Beethoven’s Bonn House.