Sophie Friederike Dinglinger (1736–1791) was a German painter.

Life and work

Born in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

, Dinglinger was the daughter of goldsmith Johann Friedrich Dinglinger, and granddaughter of the better known goldsmith

Johann Melchior Dinglinger Johann Melchior Dinglinger (26 December 1664 –6 March 1731) was one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, whose major works for the elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong, survived in the Grünes Gewölbe (the "Green Vaults"), Dresden. Dingling ...

. She studied with

Adam Friedrich Oeser Adam Friedrich Oeser (17 February 1717 in Pressburg – 18 March 1799 in Leipzig) was a German etcher, painter and sculptor. Biography Oeser worked and studied in Pressburg (student of Georg Raphael Donner in sculpture) and Vienna at the V ...

. She invented a method to fix

pastel A pastel () is an art medium that consists of powdered pigment and a binder (material), binder. It can exist in a variety of forms, including a stick, a square, a pebble, and a pan of color, among other forms. The pigments used in pastels are ...

to paper which was used by, among others,

Dora Stock Dora (shortened from Doris or Dorothea) Stock (6 March 1759 – 30 May 1832) was a German artist of the 18th and 19th centuries who specialized in portraiture. She was at the center of a highly cultivated household in which a great number of arti ...

; this appears to have allowed the use of deeper colors and a naturalistic treatment of fabric. She produced

miniature painting Miniature painting may refer to: * Miniature (illuminated manuscript), a small illustration used to decorate an illuminated manuscript ** Persian miniature, a small painting on paper in the Persian tradition, for a book or album ** Ottoman miniatur ...

s and pastels during her career. Henriette-Félicité Tassaert lived with Dinglinger during the start of her sojourn in Dresden.Profile of Henriette-Félicité Tassaert
at the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''.

References

1736 births 1791 deaths 18th-century German painters 18th-century German women artists German pastel artists Artists from Dresden German portrait miniaturists German women pastel artists 18th-century German women painters {{Germany-painter-stub