Julia Charlotte Mengs (c. 1730 – after 1806) was a German painter. Julia Charlotte was born in Bohemia, into the

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family of

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painter Ismael Mengs, a ''hofmaler'' (

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) at the court of Saxonian-Polish electors and kings. She was the younger sister of

Therese Maron Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs; 1725 – October 10, 1806), was a German (Saxon) painter, for most of her life active in Rome. She was the elder sister of more known painter Anton Raphael Mengs. Therese was born in northern Bohemian ...

and

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (22 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German painter, active in Dresden, Rome, and Madrid, who while painting in the Rococo period of the mid-18th century became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting, which replace ...

, and also embarked on a career as a court painter. However, in 1765 she entered the Belvedere Convent in the March of Ancona, taking the name of Sister Maria Speranda. She died there sometime after 1806. No work by Julia appears to have survived, although a pastel portrait of her traditionally described as being by her sister has sometimes been suggested to be a self-portrait instead.Profile
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

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