Ida Charlotte Clementine Wedel-Jarlsberg (12 September 1855–29 January 1929) was a Norwegian courtier, artist, temperance activist, pacifist and feminist. She was a lady-in-waiting (''

hovfröken A maid of honour is a junior attendant of a queen in Royal Household, royal households. The position was and is junior to the lady-in-waiting. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts. Role Traditi ...

'') of queen Sophia of Sweden.

Biography

She was the daughter of the Norwegian nobleman and landowner count Peder Anker Wedel Jarlsberg (1809–1893) and Hedevig Annette Betzy Sigismunda Anker (1819–1879). She attended the painting school of

Knud Bergslien Knud Larsen Bergslien (15 May 1827 – 27 November 1908) was a Norwegian painter, art teacher and master artist. In his art, he frequently portrayed the lives of the Norwegian people, their history and heroes of the past. Bergslien is most associ ...

(1873–74) in Kristiania. Afterwards she continued her studies at

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

with

Hans Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Roma ...

as an instructor. From 1875 to 1877 she stayed in Munich, where she had the painter

Eilif Peterssen Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen (4 September 1852 – 29 December 1928) was a Norwegian painter. He is most commonly associated with his landscapes and portraits. Biography Hjalmar Eilif Emanuel Peterssen was born in Christiania, now Osl ...

as her tutor. She was appointed as

maid of honour A maid of honour is a junior attendant of a queen in royal households. The position was and is junior to the lady-in-waiting. The equivalent title and office has historically been used in most European royal courts. Role Traditionally, a queen ...

to queen Sophia of

Sweden-Norway Sweden and Norway or Sweden–Norway ( sv, Svensk-norska unionen; no, Den svensk-norske union(en)), officially the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and known as the United Kingdoms, was a personal union of the separate kingdoms of Sweden ...

in 1878. She is noted to have been a favorite of the queen among the ladies-in-waiting, along with

Märta Eketrä ''Märta'' Elisabeth Margareta Eketrä (Stockholm, 4 November 1851 – 26 August 1894, Ulriksdal Palace), was a Swedish lady-in-waiting, favorite and confidant of Sophia of Nassau, queen Sophia of Sweden. Märta Eketrä was the daughter of the nob ...

and

Ebba von Rosen Ebba is a feminine given name, the feminine version of Ebbe, which is a diminutive form of the Germanic name Eberhard or Everhard, meaning " strong." Alternately, it may be a form of an Old English name Æbbe, of unknown derivation, which was the ...

.Riiber, Anne-Marie (1959). Drottning Sophia. Uppsala: Lindblad. pp. 188–191. Libris She lost her position as lady-in-waiting in 1885, because she refused to attend a dinner with prime minister

Johan Sverdrup Johan Sverdrup (30 July 1816 – 17 February 1892) was a Norwegian politician from the Liberal Party. He was the first prime minister of Norway after the introduction of parliamentarism and served as the 4th prime minister of Norway. Sverdrup was ...

as the representative of the queen, her reason being that she disliked the prime minister on political grounds. In 1892, she was elected chairman of the temperance- and pacifist society ''Norske Kvinders Totalavholdsselskap – Det Hvite Bånd''. In 1894, she founded the women's association ''Unge Kvinners Kristelige Samfund'' with Birgitte Esmark (1841-1897). She visited Italy several times as a painter and lived there permanently from 1916 to 1923. She died during 1929 in Oslo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wedel-Jarlsberg, Ida 1855 births 1929 deaths Swedish ladies-in-waiting 19th-century Norwegian women artists Norwegian pacifists Norwegian feminists Norwegian temperance activists Pacifist feminists 19th-century Norwegian painters