page_title: Ulla von Höpken
section_title: Later life
hierarchical_section_title: Ulla von Höpken / Biography / Later life
caption_attribution_description: English: Venus with the beautiful buttocks Deutsch: Venus mit dem schönen Hintern
context_page_description: Ulrika "Ulla" Eleonora von Höpken, later von Wright, née von Fersen, was a Swedish countess and courtier. She is also famous in history as one of "the three graces" of the Gustavian age; three ladies-in-waiting immortalized in the poem Gracernas döpelse by Johan Henric Kellgren, and known profiles of the epoch. She was a leading socialite and trendsetter in contemporary Sweden, and one of the best known profiles of the Gustavian age.
context_section_description: After the Riksdag of the Estates of 1789, when Gustav III came in conflict with the nobility, he arrested her uncle Axel von Fersen the Elder as a leader of the aristocratic opposition to the Union and Security Act and the Russo-Swedish War (1788–90). This caused a break in the relation between Gustav III and Ulla von Höpken, who joined the demonstration of Jeanna von Lantingshausen.
  In 1795, her mother, chief lady in waiting to queen Sophia Magdalena although bedridden, was relieved from her position, and her daughters Ulla and Augusta simultaneously left their positions at court in solidarity, officially to tend to their mother's health.
  Her mother died later that same year. 
  In 1797, Ulla von Höpken married her "fateful admirer" and long term lover, the five years younger colonel Georg Jonas von Wright (1754–1800), and reportedly lived happy with him in Uppsala. 
  After having been widowed, she lived with her sisters and "was commonly as respected for their charity as well as for their refined manner, which was primarily afforded those, who was formed by the court of Gustav III".
  Ulla von Höpken died of cancer.
caption: Aphrodite Kallipygos or Venus aux belles fesses (1779) by Johan Tobias Sergel, which was ordered by Gustav III and used Ulla von Höpken as a model. Nationalmuseum.
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