File:Johann Heinrich Schroeder - Landgravine Juliane von Schaumburg-Lippe.jpg

"Moreover, the sitter, ca. 20-year-old Juliane Landgravine of Schaumburg-Lippe (her dress and hairstyle speak for early 1780s) lived in the area where in that period Schroeder worked (as we will see below, between 1780-1785 he was active in Hannover and Brunswick, i. e. very close to Juliane's residence town Bueckeburg in Lower Saxony.

Juliane was a daughter of Landgrave William of Hesse-Philippsthal (1726-1810) and his wife Landgräfin Ulrike Eleonore of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld (1732-1795). Partly raised in Herzogenbusch, where her father served as a Dutch General, she received a German education. On 10 October 1780 she married Landgrave Philipp II Ernst of Schaumburg-Lippe in Philippsthal. Philipp Ernst, 57 years old at the time of the marriage and a widower, died after seven years of marriage. Together with Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Juliane took over the regency for her infant son Georg Wilhelm. Immediately afterwards, Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel had Schaumburg-Lippe militarily occupied as a fief. Juliane achieved the rapid withdrawal of Wilhelm's troops through the intervention of the Reichshofrat and support from Hanover and Prussia.

The government of Juliane is considered extremely beneficial. She conducted thorough reforms of the economy and education, downsized the court, conducted the tolerant policy towards the Jews and managed to cut taxes. She appointed Bernhard Christoph Faust as her personal physician, and helped him significantly with the introduction of the smallpox inoculation. She initiated a redesign of Hagenburg Castle and she is considered the founder of the spa Bad Eilsen.

She died on 9th November 1799 after a severe cold and was buried in a mausoleum in the Schaumburg Forest. Count von Wallmoden-Gimborn continued to act as a regent for her son."