Portrait of Juliana Waltersdorff as Mrs Cornelius Kortright of Hylands, Essex

Jens Juel (1745 - 1802)

Chelmsford Museum and the Essex Regiment Museum

circa 1800-1802

The Danish sitter, Juliana Margaretta Waltersdorff (1769-1819), married Cornelius Hendrickson Kortright circa 1790. This portrait depicts the sitter as a motherly figure in her matron's cap which was a normal indoors costume for a married woman at that time. It is in an oval carved gilt frame of the period.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 68 x 52.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £2750 ( Total: £7,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2002
• Vendor: James Dillon

Provenance

By descent from the maternal grand mother (Kortright) to Mrs F Ward-Thomas; Lady Collins; Mr Robert Smith Esq.; Mr Lawrence Sullivan Esq.; James Dillon.

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