Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr (12 February 1813, Trostberg - 18 November 1898, Munich)

Portrait of Helene Sedlmayr in Old Munich costume by court painter Joseph Karl Stieler, c.1830, for the Gallery of Beauties.


Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr (12 February 1813, Trostberg - 18 November 1898, Munich) was a German beauty of the 19th century, considered the epitome of Munich's beauties. A shoemaker's daughter, she became known to Ludwig I of Bavaria when (aged 15) she supplied toys to his children and he commissioned a portrait of her from Stieler for his Gallery of Beauties. In 1831 she married the king's valet Hermes Miller (1804–1871), with whom she had 10 children.
painting: waterbased on an ivory chip
not signed
fine details
preservation portrait: excellent
frame: excellent
decorated ring and copper suspension eyelet
convex glass
internal dimension ring: vertical 48 mm.
thicknes frame: ab 10mm
vertical dimension frame: 105 mm




stock number 423