MY HOBBIES, PERSONALITY, AND APPEARANCE

My hobbies are hunting and fishing.
I am kind, optimistic, and cordial. I have a strong sense of humor, evident in my love of practical jokes and often apparent in my music.

I am short in stature because I was underfed throughout most of his youth. I am proud to say that I was a survivor of  smallpox; however, my  face was pitted with the scars of this disease.  What I loath is that various portraitists who drew or painted me, each took a different path in attempting to portray the attractive personality instead of the ugly face; hence no two surviving portraits of Haydn are alike. They think I look ugly, but they did not look at their face. The picture is an original manuscript by me, in the British Museum. (OF COURSE)