Anna Maria Hilfeling

Anna Maria Hilfeling, née Lange was a Swedish artist and portrait miniaturist.

Biography

Hilfeling was born in Stockholm, the daughter of a book-keeper. She displayed talent in drawing as a child, became a student of artist Burchardt Precht in 1722, at the age of nine, and was later a student of the artist Niclas Lafrenssen . She was admired by Carl [Gustav Tessin], and by the royal house. She painted in oil and made drawings, but was foremost a miniaturist. Among her clients were the king and the queen, king Frederick I of Sweden and queen Ulrika [Eleonora of Sweden].
Hilfeling married the city surgeon Johan Gottfried Hilfeling in 1739. Their son, Carl Gustav Gottfried Hilfeling also became an artist. Anna Maria Hilfeling died at Romelanda in Bohuslän.