Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck (1663–1740) was a Swedish noble, known as a dilettante

Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....

 artist (painter), amateur

Amateur

An amateur is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training....

 actor, and poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Daughter of Conrad Christoff Königsmarck (1634–1673) and Maria Christina Wrangel

Wrangel

Wrangel is a Baltic German noble family, included in Swedish, Russian and Prussian nobility.- Notable members :...

, sister of Philip Christoph Königsmarck, Aurora Königsmarck and Carl Johan Königsmarck, and paternal niece of Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck

Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck

Count Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck was a Swedish military officer from Minden. He attained the rank of field marshal in 1676, commanded the Battle of Stralsund , and became Governor General for Swedish Pomerania in 1679. He was the son of Hans Christoff Königsmarck and the brother of Conrad Christoff...

. Married to count Carl Gustaf Lewenhaupt (1662–1703) in 1689.

She belonged to the royal court-dilettantes among the students of Ehrenstrahl

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl was a Swedish nobleman and portrait painter.Ehrenstrahl was born in Hamburg. In 1652, at twenty-four years of age, at the request of Carl Gustaf Wrangel, he moved to Skokloster Castle, from his art studies in the Netherlands...

. Her known paintings include a self portrait (1688), a portrait of her sister Aurora, of the noble Katarina Ebba Horn (1698) and of Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was a Queen consort in Prussia as wife of Frederick William I. She was the sister of George II of Great Britain and the mother of Frederick the Great.- Biography :...

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As did her sister Aurora, she participated at the amateur theatre

Amateur theatre

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 of the royal court encouraged by the queen, Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark. She also wrote poetry.