Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl (1666 - 1729)

• Was a Swedish Baroque painter.
• Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl was the daughter of the painter David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and Maria Momma. 

• In 1688, she married Johan Wattrang, President of Svea Hovrätt.

• She is still, however, known exclusively by the surname Ehrenstrahl.
• At this time in Sweden, it was not common for women to assume the name of their husbands after marriage.
• 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.
• Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl was the student of her father.
• She produced a large number of copies of the works of her father.
• 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.
• At the age of twenty one, she completed an allegory of the four seasons (1687) and an allegory of Cupid and Psyche.
• She produced portraits of Prince Fredrik and Prince Karl Gustav by commission of the Queen Dowager (1690), a portrait of Prince Gustav (1685), a portrait of Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark, and of Aurora Königsmarck.
• In 1717, Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl donated six of her paintings to Svea Hovrätt, depicting six of its presidents.

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