{{Short description|German artist (1751–1792)}} {{Infobox person | name = Anna Maria Mengs | image = Anna Maria Mengs - Selfportrait -BNE.jpg | caption = Anna Maria Mengs, selfportrait. | birth_name = Anna Maria Mengs | birth_date = 1751 | birth_place = Dresden, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire | death_date = 29 October 1792 | death_place = Madrid, Spain | occupation = Painter | parents = Anton Raphael Mengs<br />Margarita Guazzi | spouse = Manuel Salvador Carmona<br />(m. 1777) | children = 7 | relatives = Therese Mengs (aunt)<br />Julia Charlotte Mengs (aunt) }}
[[File:Anton Raphael Mengs by Anna Maria Mengs. Second half of the XVIII Century.jpg|thumb|right|200 px|''Portrait of Anton Raphael Mengs'' by Anna Maria Mengs, Museo del Prado]] '''Anna Maria Mengs''', or '''Ana Carmona''' (1751–1792), was a German artist; known largely for portraits.
==Biography== Born in Dresden, she was the daughter of the painter Raphael Mengs and his wife, Margarita Guazzi. She studied art with her father. In 1777, she married the Spanish engraver Manuel Salvador Carmona. They had seven children.
Her works include portraits in pastel and miniature; that of her husband is in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, to which Mengs was admitted as a member of merit on August 29, 1790.<ref name="Smith66" /> She died in Madrid in 1792 and was interred at St Sebastian's Church.
In 1793, to mark the first anniversary of her death, the Academy of San Fernando presented an exhibition of Mengs' work.<ref name="Smith66">Smith, Theresa Ann (2006). ''The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain''. University of California Press. p. 66. {{ISBN|0520245830}}.</ref> In 1800, in his ''Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de las Bellas Artes en España'', Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez wrote of her that despite "seven births, and the care and education of her children, she did not stop painting miniatures and pastels with good taste and intelligence."<ref>Smith, Theresa Ann (2006). ''The Emerging Female Citizen: Gender and Enlightenment in Spain''. University of California Press. pp. 65–66. {{ISBN|0520245830}}.</ref>
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'''Attribution:''' * {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Carmona, Ana |volume=1 |page=[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924092716962#page/n249/mode/1up 234]}}
==Further reading== * "Mengs, Anna Maria". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.24: Mandere–Möhl. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1930, pg.390 ([https://repozytorium.biblos.pk.edu.pl/resources/37642/browse#page/398 Online])
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