Portrait of Juliana Waltersdorff as Mrs Cornelius Kortright of Hylands, Essex
Jens Juel
- Art Funded
- 2002
- Dimensions
- 68 x 52.5 cm
- Vendor
- James Dillon
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.
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.