Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs; 1725 – October 10, 1806), was a

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(

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)

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, for most of her life active in

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. She was the elder sister of more known painter

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German people, German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassicism, Neoclas ...

. Therese was born in northern

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n town of

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(german: Aussig) into the

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family of

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painter

Ismael Mengs Ismael Israel Mengs (1690 – 26 December 1765) was a Danish portrait painter. Born in Copenhagen into a family of Jewish descent, he learned the art of miniature- and enamel-painting in Lübeck, and then traveled through Germany, Italy, and A ...

, a ''hofmaler'' (

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) at the court of Saxon-Polish electors and kings. Her birth in Bohemia was mere coincidence, because her father maintained an extramarital relationship with his housekeeper Charlotte Bormann and in an effort to conceal the birth of an illegitimate child, he decided to take the mistress under the pretext of "vacations" to the nearest bigger town abroad, namely to Ústí nad Labem (90 km upstream of the

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), where she gave birth to daughter Therese Concordia. After a few weeks, Mengs took his daughter and her mother back to

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, the Saxon capital, where they lived. (Three years later he made the same trick even with the birth of his son, Anton Raphael). In her 16 years she moved with her family to Rome, where married later (1765) an

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portrait painter and pupil of her brother, Anton von Maron. She painted a number of enamels,

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s, and miniatures, including a self-portrait and a portrait of her younger sister Julia. She died in Rome in 1806. Maron was also active as a teacher; among her pupils were ,

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, her niece

Anna Maria Mengs Anna Maria Mengs, or Ana Carmona (1751–1792), was a German artist; known largely for portraits. Biography Born in Dresden, she was the daughter of the painter Raphael Mengs and his wife, Margarita Guazzi. She studied art with her father. In ...

, and Sofia Clerc.

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File:Theresa Concordia Mengs - Madonna and Child with Sts Jerome and Mary Magdalen after Correggio (Der Tag).jpg, alt=, ''Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen'' by Theresa Concordia Mengs, circa 1746 File:Maron T C v Maron@Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum.JPG, alt=, Portrait of Therese Concordia von Maron, circa 1789, by Anton von Maron

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maron, Therese 1725 births 1806 deaths German people of Danish descent 18th-century German women artists 19th-century German women artists Sibling artists Women enamellers German enamellers 18th-century enamellers 19th-century enamellers German women painters 18th-century German painters 19th-century German painters Artists from Ústí nad Labem Artists from Dresden German emigrants to Italy Artists from Rome

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