Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl

Because of her wealthy marriage, she did not have to be a professional artist to support herself, but she continued to paint her entire life, and still occasionally accepted commissions for money.

[1] Her production consisted of allegory, gouache and portraits of people and animals, single and in groups, in the baroque style also used by her father.

She produced a group of portraits of six presidents of Svea Hovrätt: Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Gustaf Adolf De la Gardie, L. Wallenstedt, Gabriel Falkenberg, Reinhold Johan von Fersen and Carl Gyllenstierna (1717).

In 1717, Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl donated six of her paintings to Svea Hovrätt, depicting six of its presidents.

On this occasion, the writer Sophia Elisabet Brenner wrote a poem of admiration to her, which depicts them both as female pioneers of their respective profession in Sweden:[1] If I of inborn instinct rimes for my pleasure, Your inclination is made clear by your work.

Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, King Karl XII of Sweden