Julie von Egloffstein (1792-1869), countess, canoness of Hildesheim, was an amateur artist of much ability. She was one of the most beautiful and gifted women at the court of Weimar, and many of Goethe's poems bear witness to the lively interest which he took in her artistic development. She painted several portraits, including those of the Grand-Duchess of Saxe-Weimar and of Queen Theresa of Bavaria. Among works of different character are Shepherds in the Roman Campagna, painted in 1835, Hagar in the Wilderness, The Exposure of Moses, Italian Popular Life, and others, some of which are in the possession of the Emperor of Russia and of Queen Victoria. She died in 1869.
This article incorporates text from the article "EGLOFFSTEIN, Julie von" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.