Anna Maria Hilfeling, née Lange (21 April 1713 – 26 May 1783) was a

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artist and portrait

miniaturist A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century eli ...

Biography

Hilfeling was born in Stockholm, the daughter of a book-keeper. She displayed talent in drawing as a child, became a student of artist

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in 1722, at the age of nine, and was later a student of the artist Niclas Lafrenssen (1698-1756). She was admired by

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, and by the royal house. She painted in oil and made drawings, but was foremost a miniaturist. Among her clients were the king and the queen, king

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and queen

Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden Ulrika Eleonora or Ulrica Eleanor (23 January 1688 – 24 November 1741), known as Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, was Queen of Sweden, reigning in her own right from 5 December 1718 until her abdication on 29 February 1720 in favour of her husband ...

. Hilfeling married the city surgeon Johan Gottfried Hilfeling in 1739. Their son, Carl Gustav Gottfried Hilfeling (1740-1823) also became an artist. Anna Maria Hilfeling died at Romelanda in

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* "Svenskt Konstnärslexikon", Allhems Förlag, Malmö. 1713 births 1783 deaths 18th-century Swedish women artists 18th-century Swedish painters Rococo painters Swedish portrait painters Portrait miniaturists Artists from Stockholm Age of Liberty people Swedish women painters {{Sweden-painter-stub