Wilhelmine Sulzer

She was the illegitimate child of the accountant Johannes Sulzer and a worker's daughter named Zoepf.

A breast problem forced her to give up acting after just a few months.

[2] She was hired as a student of Heigel at the Royal Court Theater in 1837, where she attracted the attention of King Ludwig I of Bavaria who called her a "decent and virtuous girl.".

[3] The king then commissioned the court painter Joseph Karl Stieler to paint the 17-year-old actress for his Gallery of Beauties collection in Nymphenburg Palace, Munich.

[4] In her portrait, Wilhelmine Sulze looses her auburn hair, wears a plain white off-shoulder gown, and is wrapped with a luxurious fur.