Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs; 1725 – October 10, 1806), was a German

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. She was the elder sister of painter

Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter wh ...

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Mengs was born in the northern

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n town of

Ústí nad Labem Ústí nad Labem (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 91,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Ústí nad Labem Region. It is a major industrial centre and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction. ...

() into the

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family of Danish painter Ismael Mengs, a ''hofmaler'' (

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) at the court of the Saxon-Polish electors and kings. Her birth in Bohemia was coincidental. Her father maintained an extramarital relationship with his housekeeper, Charlotte Bormann. In an effort to conceal the birth of their illegitimate child, he decided to take her along with him on a "vacation" to the nearest bigger town abroad. There, she gave birth to daughter Therese Concordia. After a few weeks, Mengs took his child and her mother back to

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 ...

, the Saxon capital, where they lived. (Three years later he did the same to conceal the birth of his son, Anton Raphael). At the age of sixteen, she moved with her family to Rome. From 1741, she worked as a miniaturist and

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painter; producing a number of enamels and portraits, including a self-portrait and a portrait of her younger sister Julia. In 1765, she married Anton von Maron, an Austrian-born portrait painter and pupil of her brother. She died in Rome in 1806. Maron was also active as a teacher. Among her pupils were Apollonia Seydelmann, her niece Anna Maria Mengs, and Sofia Clerc.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Maron, Therese 1725 births 1806 deaths German people of Danish descent 18th-century German women artists Sibling artists Women enamellers German enamellers 18th-century enamellers 19th-century enamellers 18th-century German painters 19th-century German painters Artists from Ústí nad Labem Artists from Dresden Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire Immigrants to the Papal States Artists from the Papal States Artists from Rome 18th-century German women painters 19th-century German women painters

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