Barbara van Beck, German celebrity and performer, 1629-c.1668. Barbara Ursler, born with hypertrichosis or Ambras syndrome, married her manager Johan Michael van Beck, exhibited and played the harpsichord around Europe. The woman with a hairy face. From a curious and scarce print. Copperplate engraving by George Scott from Samuel Woodburns Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martins Lane, London, 1816.
Barbara van Beck, German celebrity and performer, 1629-c.1668. Barbara Ursler, born with hypertrichosis or Ambras syndrome, married her manager Johan Michael van Beck, exhibited and played the harpsichord around Europe. The woman with a hairy face. From a curious and scarce print. Copperplate engraving by George Scott from Samuel Woodburns Gallery of Rare Portraits Consisting of Original Plates, George Jones, 102 St Martins Lane, London, 1816.