Wilhelmine von Lichtenau

English: Wilhelmine von Lichtenau (born Wilhelmine Encke) (1753-1820), daughter of a musician, was a life time mistress of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia. She gave birth to some of his children. One of their descendents was the later Prussian court sculptor Erdmann Encke.

Deutsch: Wilhelmine von Lichtenau, Gräfin seit 1794, eigtl. Wilhelmine Enke (auch Encke) (* 29. Dezember 1753 in Potsdam; † 9. Juni 1820 in Berlin) war die Maitresse Friedrich Wilhelms II. von Preußen.

Gallery

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  Wilhelmine Encke, 1776, painted by Anna Dorothea Therbusch
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  Wilhelmine Encke, now Wilhelmine Countess Lichtenau (Gräfin Lichtenau), 1794, sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow