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

Jens Juel, c. 1800–1802

Chelmsford Museum and the Essex Regiment Museum, Chelmsford

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.

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Title of artwork, date

Portrait of Juliana Waltersdorff as Mrs Cornelius Kortright of Hylands, Essex, c. 1800–1802

Date supported

2002

Medium and material

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

68 x 52.5 cm

Grant

2750

Total cost

7000

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