Helene Sedlmayr

Helene Kreszenz Sedlmayr (12 February 1813, Trostberg - 18 November 1898, Munich) was a German beauty of the 19th century, considered the epitome of Munich's beauties. A shoemaker's daughter, she became known to Ludwig I of Bavaria when (aged 15) she supplied toys to his children and he commissioned a portrait of her from Stieler for his Gallery of Beauties.

Portrait of Helene Sedlmayr in Old Munich costume by court painter Joseph Karl Stieler, c.1830, for the Gallery of Beauties.
Helene's grave in Munich's Alter Südfriedhof - burial field 38, row 3, grave 25

In 1831 she married the king's valet Hermes Miller (1804–1871), with whom she had 10 children.

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