Ferdinand Fleck by Johann Christoph Kimpfel, Berlin 1787

Portrait of Ferdinand Fleck (1757–1801) as Macbeth, Berlin 1787. Fleck first played Macbeth in 1787, when the play was scarcely known in Germany. In Germany it was he who first presented fully developed characterizations of this and other tragic roles in Shakespeare. Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung der Universität zu Köln, Schloss Wahn, Inv. Nr. 30097 Author Johann Christoph Kimpfel, via the Yorck Project (Wikipedia)