A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Seidelmann, Apollonia
SEIDELMANN, APOLLONIA,
The wife of James Seidelmann, Professor of the Fine Arts at the academy of Dresden. In Venice, her native city, she had received instructions in drawing, and afterwards perfected herself in this accomplishment under the direction of her husband. In the year 1790, she went with him to Italy, where she devoted herself for three years to miniature painting, assisted by the celebrated Teresa Maron, sister of Raphael Mengs. After her return to Dresden, she painted more after the manner of her husband, and showed herself a rare artist, by her fine copies of the best pictures of the academy. One of her master copies is the Madonna of Raphael. The eminent talent of this artistic couple for conversation deserves to be mentioned likewise; their soirées, which they gave abroad and at home, and to which their charming daughter, Luise Seidelmann, aided greatly by her musical powers, were the delight of all who loved genius and art.