He is recorded as the first to claim that "dog is man's best friend", as he referred to one of his Italian greyhounds as his best friend. In 1986, he was made the subject of a painting by pop-art icon Andy Warhol, entitled "Friederich the Great," a print of which may be viewed by the public on the 10th floor of the Holiday Inn in downtown New Orleans. In 2016, Frederick was featured on Epic Rap Battles of History as an opponent of Ivan the Terrible in a rap battle between Alexander the Great and Ivan the Terrible and is portrayed by Lloyd Ahlquist. In the satirical alternate history story "The Merry German Prince" by Barry Kaufman, the young Frederick and his friend Katte did manage to escape to England. Frederick's furious father disinherited him and had him sentenced to death in absentia. Frederick lived out a bohemian life as an exile shifting between the royal courts in London and Paris, and got some name as a poet, composer and musical performer. The Prussian throne was inherited by Frederick's brother Augustus William, under whom Prussia was decisively defeated in the War of the Austrian Succession, its army crushed and much of its territory taken away - never again to contend seriously for supremacy. As a result, Germany was never unified, remaining a loose collection of principalities, and in the 20th Century there were no World Wars.