Danish courtesans

Danish actor and playwright (1731-1757)

thumb|Støvlet-Cathrine. Anne Cathrine Benthagen, known in history by her nickname Støvlet-Cathrine (b. Copenhagen, c. 1745 – d. Plön, Holstein, 1805), was a Danish prostitute, one of the best known courtesans in Copenhagen in the 1760s and the official royal mistress of King Christian VII of Denmark.