Sophie Koner

Sophie Koner, née Schäffer (13 July 1855, London - 1 June 1929, Berlin) was a German portrait painter.

Back in Berlin, she took lessons from Max Koner, who was very popular in high society as a portrait painter.

By the 1890s, Max was receiving so many commissions for portraits that she became discreetly employed in finishing them; adding some of the clothing and backgrounds.

[citation needed] Following his sudden death at the age of forty-six, she began to specialize in portraits of children, to express her own personal talents.

She died at the age of seventy-three, and was interred next to Max at the Friedhöfe vor dem Halleschen Tor [de] in the Kreuzberg district.