Juliana de Lannoy, was an artist and poet from the Northern Netherlands.
Background
She was born in Breda as the oldest child of an officer who left home to serve in the War of the Austrian succession. Her mother decided to move back to her parents" house in 1743 after her youngest girl died and so Juliana"s formative years were spent in Nijmegen.
Career
Within a short period Juliana lost all of her family members. Her father returned wounded from the war and so Juliana was sent to his family in Zutphen. Her father remarried Pauline Aleida Putman of Deventer and in 1752 Juliana moved there with them.
Her half-brother Adolf Hendrik was born the next year.
In 1758 the family moved to Saint Geertruidenberg where Juliana"s father lived on the Markt in the house called "De Roos", today a museum.