Theresia Anna Maria von Brühl, Gräfin von Thun und Hohenstein (1784–1844) was a German noblewoman and

pastel A pastel () is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder (material), binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments used in pastels are ...

list.

Early life

Born in Pförten, today the village of

Brody, Żary County Brody is a town in Żary County, Lubusz Voivodeship, in western Poland, close to the Germany, German border. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Brody, Lubusz Voivodeship, Gmina Brody. It lies approximately north-w ...

, von Brühl was the daughter of Aloys Friedrich Joseph Graf von Brühl (1739-1793) and his wife Josepha Christina Amalie von Schaffgotsch genannt Semperfrei von und zu Kynast und Greiffenstein (1764-1846), and therefore a niece of the patroness Tina von Brühl.

Biography

It seems unlikely that she was working before 1800; the earliest to which any of her pieces can be ascribed is 1803. One of her pastels is a ''Vestal'' copied after a work by

Angelica Kauffman Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss people, Swiss Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered prima ...

that is today in the Gemäldegalerie,

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

; another, a ''Sybil'', bears some resemblance to a painting by

Anton Rafael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter who eventually ...

Marriage

In 1808 she married Franz Anton, Count von

Thun und Hohenstein The House of Thun und Hohenstein, also known as Thun-Hohenstein, belonged to the historical Austrian nobility, Austrian and Bohemian nobility. There is one princely and several count, comital branches of the family. The princely branch of the fami ...

(1786–1873), the son of Count Wenzel Joseph von Thun und Hohenstein (1737-1796) and his wife, Countess Maria Anna von Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky (1750-1828). They had three sons and two daughters.

References

1784 births 1844 deaths Countesses in Germany 19th-century German painters People from Żary County Prussian nobility German pastel artists German women pastel artists 19th-century German women painters {{Germany-painter-stub