Jens Juel (b. Balslev, Funen 1745, d. Copenhagen 1802)
Portrait of Sophie Christine Smidt (1797–1884) as a child. Half figure facing right, in a white dress standing at a table with a basket of roses and forget-me-nots. C. 1800–1802. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 35×27 cm. Contempory frame.
Ellen Poulsen, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Jens Juel, 1991, no. 852, ill. p. 553.
Exhibited: Kunstforeningen, “Jens Juel. Malerier i privat eje”, 1982 no. 74, ill. p. 55.
Provenance: In the possession of the portrayed person's family until today.
Sophie Christine Smidt was the daughter of the governor of St. Croix, Claus Langhaar Smidt (1761–1884). He was a very capable civil servant, who in 1799 was appointed administrator of the Christiansted jurisdiction on St. Croix, and in 1807, he became a member of the West Indies government. In 1813, Sophie Christine married the parish priest Jørgen Nicolai Oxholm (1784–1849). The wedding was held on Constitution Hill on St. Croix. She became a much-loved grandmother in both the Smidt and Oxholm families.
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