{"id":3101,"date":"2021-06-13T04:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T04:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler.jpg"},"modified":"2022-11-27T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T18:09:57","slug":"royal-vienna-portrait-plate-helene-sedlmayer-after-stieler","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/royal_vienna\/joseph-stieler\/royal-vienna-portrait-plate-helene-sedlmayer-after-stieler\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Vienna portrait plate Helene Sedlmayr after Stieler"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"acf":[],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"920\" src=\"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-920x920.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Royal Vienna portrait plate Helene Sedlmayr after Stieler\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-920x920.jpg 920w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg 923w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helene Sedlmayr (1813 &#8211; 1898) was a shoemaker&#8217;s daughter. From 1830 to 1831, she worked as an assistant in a toy store called Auracher\u2019s. Helene got noticed by king Ludwig I of Bavaria while delivering toys to his children. He commissioned a portrait of her from Joseph Stieler in Old Munich costume for his Gallery of Beauties.<br \/>\nLudwig was a known playboy. His architect and confidant Leo von Klenze kept a dossier of the king\u2019s conquests which listed the names of over 50 girls.<br \/>\nLudwig is said to have wooed Helene with the words \u201cDon\u2019t have such a searching and inquiring glance. You cheeky, loveliest beauty, look at me and trust me.\u201d<br \/>\nLudwig was so crazy about Helene, that it was feared the affair would embarrass the royal court. After all, she was a mere shoemaker\u2019s daughter. So to protect the king&#8217;s reputation Helene Sedlmayr was betrothed to his valet Hermes Miller.<br \/>\nThe couple had 10 children \u2013 9 sons and a daughter. There was tongue-in-cheek rumor though that Helene was the de facto long-term mistress (one of many) of the king, as all of her sons coinsidently had Ludwig&#8217;s long, red hair \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>Helene Sedlmayr (1813 &#8211; 1898) was a shoemaker&#8217;s daughter. From 1830 to 1831, she worked as an assistant in a toy store called Auracher\u2019s. Helene got noticed by king Ludwig I of Bavaria while delivering toys to his children. He commissioned a portrait of her from Joseph Stieler in Old Munich costume for his Gallery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"Royal Vienna portrait plate Helene Sedlmayr after Stieler","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":923,"height":923,"file":"2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-920x920.jpg","width":920,"height":920,"filesize":166520,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-920x920.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-300x300.jpg","width":300,"height":300,"filesize":26737,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-300x300.jpg"},"medium_large":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-768x768.jpg","width":768,"height":768,"filesize":126838,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-768x768.jpg"},"store-sq-thumb":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-600x600.jpg","width":600,"height":600,"filesize":85945,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-600x600.jpg"},"store-thumb":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-540x450.jpg","width":540,"height":450,"filesize":66849,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-540x450.jpg"},"pop-thumb":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-542x340.jpg","width":542,"height":340,"filesize":50819,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579-542x340.jpg"},"full":{"file":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg","width":923,"height":923,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":395,"source_url":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg","filename":"Royal-Vienna-portrait-plate-Helene-Sedlmayer-after-Stieler-e1666226075579.jpg","filesize":186753,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"page","id":395,"href":"https:\/\/antiqueref.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}