Ida Charlotte Clementine von Wedel-Jarlsberg (12 September 1855 – 29 January 1929) was a Norwegian courtier, artist, temperance activist, pacifist and feminist. She was a lady-in-waiting (''

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'') of Queen Sophia of Sweden.

Biography

She was the daughter of the Norwegian nobleman and landowner Count Peder Anker von Wedel-Jarlsberg (1809–1893) and his wife, Hedevig Annette Betzy Sigismunda

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(1819–1879). She attended the painting school of

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(1873–74) in Kristiania. Afterwards she continued her studies at

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with

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as an instructor. From 1875 to 1877 she stayed in Munich, where she had the painter

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as her tutor. She was appointed as

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to queen Sophia of

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in 1878. She is noted to have been a favorite of the queen among the ladies-in-waiting, along with

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and

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. She lost her position as lady-in-waiting in 1885, because she refused to attend a dinner with prime minister

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as the representative of the queen, her reason being that she disliked the prime minister on political grounds. In 1892, she was elected chairman of the temperance- and pacifist society ''Norske Kvinders Totalavholdsselskap – Det Hvite Bånd''. In 1894, she founded the women's association ''Unge Kvinners Kristelige Samfund'' with Birgitte Esmark (1841-1897). By 1910, Ida shared a house with several other socially conscious women including Valentine Dannevig and Solveig Lund. She visited Italy several times as a painter and lived there permanently from 1916 to 1923. She died during 1929 in Oslo.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wedel-Jarlsberg, Ida 1855 births 1929 deaths Swedish ladies-in-waiting Norwegian pacifists Norwegian feminists Norwegian temperance activists Pacifist feminists 19th-century Norwegian painters 19th-century Norwegian women painters