Amalia von Schintling (whose first name is also given as Amalie in some sources) was the daughter of Major Lorenz von Schintling, a member of the Quartermaster General's Staff, and his wife Theresia, Baroness von Hacke. The portrayal of Amalia von Schintling in the Gallery of Beauties was approved by her father, but was against the wishes of her fiancée Fritz von Schintling.[2] Schintling, who was Amalia's cousin, would have resisted having his future bride painted for the gallery out of a "very exaggerated sense of honor".[3]
Before the planned wedding to Fritz von Schintling and only a short time after the portrait was created in the Gallery, Amalie fell ill with tuberculosis and succumbed to the disease on 22 December 1831, at the age of just 19, in her hometown of Munich.[4]
