|
Date: |
|
Description: | This is the later of two portraits in the collection at Chelmsford of Juliana Margaretta Waltersdorff (1769-1819), and was among the very last paintings produced by the Danish artist Jens Juel. It represents a woman in her early thirties, middle-aged for the time, after a decade of marriage and a few years after she and her husband had acquired Hylands House near Chelmsford. In contrast to her youthful portrait of the 1780s, by the same artist, this painting celebrates the sitter's matriarchal status as head of the Hylands household, showing her in the fashionable but appropriate indoor dress of a married woman of leisure. Twice Director of the Royal Danish Academy, Jens Juel is best known for his portraits of the Danish royal family and aristocracy, although like his English contemporary Thomas Gainsborough, his career encompassed landscape as well as portraiture. | Subjects: | Mrs Cornelius) Juliana Margaretta; Kortright portrait (Waltersdorff | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Juel, Jens (Danish painter, 1745-1802) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8847... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
-
A Man
Sir Anthony van Dyck was…
-
-
-
-
|