Adeline Jaeger 19th Century Signed Oil on Panel. There is damage to the frame. Please see photos. 
Jaeger was born as Adelheid Heuser in Gummersbach. 1831 she was sent to her uncle Carl Christian Jugel to Frankfurt am Main to provide for his underage sons after the death of his wife.
In 1834 she succeeded in convincing her uncle to become a painter so he gave her a seat at the Städel Institute, where she studied with the painter Joseph Binder. In 1836 she was allowed to study by Hermann Stilke and Wilhelm Schadow, the Director of the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. On various meetings and celebrations of the Düsseldorf artist painters met Adolph Schroedter, Carl Friedrich Lessing, her future brother-in-law, and Julius Hubner, Eduard Bendemann, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Theodor Hildebrandt. Élite she was arrived at the end of the 1830s so, that the art historian Hermann Alfred who mentioned it in his book on the Düsseldorf School of painting.
In the summer of 1837 she returned to Gummersbach,where met the Pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Jaeger, whom she married in 1838. She bore him five children, the family moved in 1838 to Cologne, where her husbant joined the Rectorate of newly shared Protestant district and subsequently made a career. From Cologne Adeline could moved occasionally to Düsseldorf, to pursue further her painting in the Studio of Karl Ferdinand Sohn. in 1864, the Frankfurt Art Union exhibited her paintings. Last years after the death of her husband, she lived in Bonn.
Jaeger was a painter, who denied an independent artistic career as a woman due to the understanding of civic roles of the 19th century. Nevertheless she turned into an élite of the classicism and realism..."
The Piece measures 21.5"W x 18.5"H framed 14"H x 11"W art