Anna Cathrine Juel

Anne Cathrine Juel (1738-1809) was a Danish businesswoman.

She owned and managed a famous coffee house in Copenhagen, known as the meeting place of the Det norske Selskab from 1772 to 1792.

She was a muse to many of the members of the society, and several poems are dedicated to her by its members.

In 2005, a memorial plaque was placed on the Thomas Angell House in Trondheim, where she died.

Painted by Eilif Peterssen in 1892: An evening at the Norwegian Society ( En aften i Det norske Selskab ). The man with the raised glass in the foreground is Johan Herman Wessel ; the man with the red jacket is Johan Nordahl Brun . Behind Wessel is the hostess, Madam Juehl .