Ernestine Charlotte of Nassau-Siegen

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Detail from a self-portrait

Ernestine Charlotte von Nassau-Siegen (born October 23, 1623 , † August 15, 1668 in Mengerskirchen ) was a painter.

family

She was a daughter of Count Johann VIII of Nassau-Siegen and the first of three wives of Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar , the second prince of the younger Ottonian line of the House of Nassau in Hadamar . The marriage took place on January 30, 1650 in Brussels .

Life

She was probably born in Brussels and spent her youth there. She can be seen in a painting by Anthony van Dyck at the age of eleven . Originally she tended towards monastery life, but after an engagement period of nine years married her cousin Moritz Heinrich von Nassau-Hadamar in 1650. The move from Brussels to the German province was probably difficult for her and she suffered from the weather, pregnancies and illnesses.

She was artistically gifted and probably received painting lessons from an artist close to van Dyck's circle. In particular, she painted portraits of women. These were created as individual pieces and not as a series. In doing so, she was guided by role models from other artists. Some of her pictures have survived and are in the Lobkowicz Collection in Prague.

progeny

  • Ernestine Ludovika (born February 17, 1651 in Hadamar , † May 29, 1661 ibid)
  • Johann Lamoral Hermann Franz (* January 21, 1653 in Hadamar, † February 18, 1654 ibid)
  • Philipp Karl (born May 15, 1656 in Hadamar, † July 22, 1668 in Oirschot )
  • Franz Kaspar Otto (born November 29, 1657 in Hadamar, † February 24, 1659 ibid)
  • Claudia Franziska (* June 6, 1660 in Hadamar, † March 6, 1680 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab ), married on July 18, 1677 in Hadamar to Prince Ferdinand August von Lobkowitz (* September 7, 1655, † October 3, 1715)
  • Maximilian August Adolph (born October 19, 1662 in Hadamar, † May 26, 1663 ibid)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Malende Fürstin  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fnp.de  

literature

  • Rouven Pons: the world of women and the image of women. The portrait painting of Princess Ernestine Charlotte von Nassau-Hadamar (1623–1668), in: Nassauische Annalen 124 (2013), pp. 187–244.

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personal data
SURNAME Ernestine Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Count Johann VIII von Nassau-Siegen, wife of the Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1623
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1668
Place of death Mengerskirchen