Nationality Italian | Known for miniature painting | |
Full Name Apollonia de Forgue Spouse(s) Jacob Crescenz Seydelmann Died 27 June 1840, Dresden, Germany | ||
Apollonia Seydelmann (born Apollonia de Forgue 17 June 1767 or 1768 Venice or Trieste - 27 June 1840 Dresden) was a German-Italian miniature painter.
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Life
She was the daughter of a French landowner and the Roman Teresa Tomasini. After her father's death, her mother married the poet Caterino Mazzola. The family moved from Venice to Dresden, where her stepfather was laureate. There she married at the age of 16 years the painter Jacob Crescenz Seydelmann. Under his guidance, she quickly made progress as a painter. In 1790, they traveled to Italy where Apollonia Seydelmann studied miniature painting, with Theresa Maron, the sister of Anton Raphael Mengs. When they returned to Dresden, she had already gained an excellent reputation for her sepia drawings and miniatures, and was accepted as a member of the Dresden Academy, for which she received a pension of 200 taler.
After their drawings of the Sistine Madonna should perform his famous engraving Johann Friedrich Müller (1782-1816); however, he was not entirely satisfied with Seydel's work and therefore first traveled to Dresden to revise his own drawing, and then through Italy, where he became familiar with the pictures of Raphael.