Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Luise Auguste Wilhelmine Amalie zu Mecklenburg-Strelitz (English: Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1776-1810) was the wife of king Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, and as such queen of Prussia. In Germany she is best known as Königin Luise.

Portraits and Portrayals by Contemporaries

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  Crown Princess Luise with her son Friedrich Wilhelm (1796, A. H. Schröder)
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  Princess Louise with sister Friederike. A famous sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1797, marble
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  (2) "Prinzessinnengruppe", model, 1797
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  (3) Louise (left) and Friederike - detail
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  Portrait by Henriette-Felicité Tassaert, 1797
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  Portrait by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, 1798
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  Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1798
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  Plaster relief by J.C.L. Bettkober, 1798
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  Portrait by Nikolaus Lauer, 1799
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  Portrait by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1801
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  Double portrait with Friedrich Wilhelm III
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  Portrait by Josef Grassi, 1802
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  With her family, by Heinrich Anton Dähling, 1806
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  Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Friedrich Georg Weitsch, 1806
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  Louise, Frederick William III, and Czar Alexander I at the sarcophagus of Frederick the Great, by Franz Catel, ca. 1806
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  Portrait by Marie-Guillemine Benoist, 1806
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  Königin Luise im Damensitz, c. 1806
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  Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1809
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  Portrait in a riding habit by Friedrich Wilhelm Ternite, 1810

Posthumous Portraits

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  Portrait by Karl Wilhelm Wach, 1812
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  Louise with her two eldest sons, the later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the later Kaiser Wilhelm I, by Carl Steffeck, 1886
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  Louise in the park of Charlottenburg Palace, anonymous chromolithograph, 19th century
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  Louise flees Napoleon by traversing the Curonian Spit
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  Talleyrand, Napoleon, Czar Alexander I of Russia, Louise, and Friedrich Wilhelm III in Tilsit, 1807

Monuments, Memorials, Statues

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  Study for a neo-Gothic mausoleum for Louise by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1810
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  Neo-Gothic memorial in Gransee by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1811
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  Mausoleum in the garden of Charlottenburg Palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1811
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  Sarcophagus in Berlin, sculpted by Christian Daniel Rauch, 1812–14
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  (2)
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  Sarcophagus copy in Neustrelitz by Albert Wolff, 1892
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  Iron statue of Louise by Christian Daniel Rauch in the Nationaldenkmal auf dem Kreuzberg, 1820
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  Memorial on the Pfaueninsel, with original facade of the mausoleum at Charlottenburg Palace
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  Bust of Queen Sophie Charlotte von Prussia by Daniel Rauch at Charlottenburg Palace
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  Bust of Queen Sophie Charlotte von Prussia by Daniel Rauch at Charlottenburg Palace
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  Statuette von Aurelio Micheli nach dem Gemälde von Gustav Richter
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  Statue by Erdmann Encke in the Großer Tiergarten (Berlin) (still there, as replica)
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  Monument in Tilsit by Gustav Eberlein
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  Memorial in Gransee-Seilershof
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  Commemorative stone at lime tree in Babitz
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  Commemorative lime tree in Babitz
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  Steles in Berlin-Französisch Buchholz, 2018

Illustrations from a patriotic youth book

Examples from: Die Königin Luise in 50 Bildern für Jung und Alt, Berlin [1896]

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  Princess Louise and sister Friederike as children in the shade of old trees of the castle Broich
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  Little Louise reads a fairy tale for an ill youngster
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  The bride Louise kisses a young admirer. Her lady-in-waiting Sophie Marie Gräfin von Voss is shocked.
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  An afternoon with her family at the Pfaueninsel
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  Louise allows Colonel Köckeritz to smoke after the meal, because he is a very good friend of her husband.
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  Louise, the mother and musician
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  Louise receives Napoleon in Tilsit.
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  Queen Louise dies at Hohenzieritz Castle, 1810