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(1) Theresia [Teresa] Concordia Mengs
(b Ústi nad Labem [Ger. Aussig], Bohemia [now the Czech Republic], bapt 1 Nov 1725; d Rome, 1806 or 1808). Painter and teacher. From 1741 she worked in Rome and in 1765 married Anton von Maron, a pupil of her brother (2) Anton Raphael Mengs. In the same year she was elected a member of the Accademia di S Luca in Rome. She also worked in Dresden, where she was court painter to the Electors of Saxony. She specialized in miniature portraits in pastels and in painting on enamel. The pastel of the Artist’s Sister Juliane Mengs (c. 1750; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister) depicts the sitter wearing a frilled cap that frames her face, the plain background concentrating attention on her alert expression. A counterpart to this work is the artist’s Self-portrait (c. 1750; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister). Theresia Concordia also produced miniature copies after Raphael and Correggio (e.g. Night, after Correggio, 1530; Dresden, Gemäldegal. Alte Meister). In Rome she taught a number of students, among whom was Apollonie Seydelmann (1767–1846), who became a member of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Dresden, in 1792.
Part of the Mengs family
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