Therese Concordia Maron (née Mengs; 1725 – October 10, 1806), was a German (Saxon) painter, for most of her life active in Rome. She was the elder sister of more known painter Anton Raphael Mengs.

Therese Concordia Maron
Self-portrait (1745)
Born	Therese Concordia Mengs 1725 Ústí nad Labem, Bohemia, Habsburg Empire
Died	October 10, 1806(1806-10-10) (aged 80–81) Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
Nationality	German
Occupation	Painter
Spouse(s)	Anton von Maron (m. 1765)
Relatives	Anton Raphael Mengs (brother) Julia Charlotte Mengs (sister) Anna Maria Mengs (niece)

Therese was born in northern Bohemian town of Ústí nad Labem (German: Aussig) into the Lutheran family of Danish painter Ismael Mengs, a hofmaler (court painter) at the court of Saxon-Polish electors and kings. Her birth in Bohemia was mere coincidence, because her father maintained an extramarital relationship with his housekeeper Charlotte Bormann and in an effort to conceal the birth of an illegitimate child, he decided to take the mistress under the pretext of "vacations" to the nearest bigger town abroad, namely to Ústí nad Labem (90 km upstream of the Elbe River), where she gave birth to daughter Therese Concordia. After a few weeks, Mengs took his daughter and her mother back to Dresden, the Saxon capital, where they lived. (Three years later he made the same trick even with the birth of his son, Anton Raphael).[1]

In her 16 years she moved with her family to Rome, where married later (1765) an Austrian portrait painter and pupil of her brother, Anton von Maron. She painted a number of enamels, pastels, and miniatures, including a self-portrait and a portrait of her younger sister Julia. She died in Rome in 1806.

Maron was also active as a teacher; among her pupils were Apollonia Seydelmann [de], Francesca Bracci, her niece Anna Maria Mengs, and Sofia Clerc.[2]

Gallery

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  Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen by Theresa Concordia Mengs, circa 1746
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  Portrait of Therese Concordia von Maron, circa 1789, by Anton von Maron

See also

• List of German women artists

Notes

References

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• Gustav Ebe (1898). Der deutsche Cicerone: Vol. III, Malerei deutsche Schulen. Otto Spamer. p. 291.

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[de] Theresa Concordia Maron

[ru] Марон, Тереза Конкордия