Amalia Wilhelmina von Königsmarck (1663-1740)

• Was a Swedish countess, artist, amateur actress and poet.
• She was the daughter of Conrad Christoff von Königsmarck and Maria Christina Wrangel.
• She married Count Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt during 1689 in the presence of the royal family and became the mother of Charles Emil Lewenhaupt the Elder.
• Like her sister Aurora, was one of the court dilettantes among Ehrenstrahl's pupils.
• She painted miniatures, portraits and self-portraits, as well as embroidered.
• She and her sister Aurora are associated with the Königsmarck tapestries, a series of six large-format embroidered tapestries in wool and silk, 1690s. 
• They also participated in the court's amateur theatre performances.
• The sisters were both interested in "French salon feminism". 
• Amalia also wrote poetry, which was later published by Hanselli.
• In 1695, her husband, Carl G. Lewenhaupt, took up the service of the Elector August the Strong of Saxony.
• He had resigned from Saxon-Polish service in 1702 and died on 25 March 1703 in Hamburg. 
• Amalia personally bought several of her husband's properties, among them Övedskloster.
• She returned to Sweden in 1722.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Amalia Wilhelmina von Königsmarck, Self-Portrait as Pictura, 1687.
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