Malin Bonde & Sven Öberg, vibyholm@telia.com
CH-427
Bilthoven, 10 december 2006
Dear Mrs. Bonde and Mr. Öberg,
Through this e-mail I take the liberty of approaching you in the English language. There is no problem to answer me in Swedish.
I am Hugo von Meijenfeldt from Bilthoven in the Netherlands. My ancestors in a straight line (be it with one natural birth in 1760) are the Swedish counts Meijerfeldt. Over the last 25 years I have researched the history of my family, wrote two books about it and published a Dutch website www.meijenfeldt.nl. I travelled to Sweden several times to study documents in Stockholm (Kungliga Biblioteket, Riksarkivet) and visit estates like Sövdeborg and Näsby slott. In my books and on my website I collect amoung other things pictures of my ancestors.
The Svenska Porträttarkivet sent me black-and-white photographs of paintings of a lot of members of the Meijerfeldt family, with the remark that the originals are in privately owned castles. One painting is of countess Anna Catharina Horn-Meijerfeldt (1722-1791), painted by O. Arenius, 84 x 66 cm, and presently in Vibyholm.
I hope I am right to turn to you to find this painting. If yes, I would be most obliged if you could advise me how to obtain a colour photograph, to publish it on my website. One of the possibilities is that I would visit your castle next summer.
Looking forward to your reply,
Yours sincerely,
Hugo von Meijenfeldt