Angelica Kauffman was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of London’s most sought-after portraitists.
A child prodigy who was producing commissioned portraits in her early teens, Kauffman was trained by her father, the Swiss
Angelica Kauffman was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts and one of London’s most sought-after portraitists.
A child prodigy who was producing commissioned portraits in her early teens, Kauffman was trained by her father, the Swiss muralist Johann Joseph Kauffman. During the early 1760s, she traveled through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy working as her father’s assistant. This transient life provided her the rare opportunity for a woman to see and copy many classical and Renaissance masterworks and to meet leaders of the popular new movement known as Neoclassicism.
During a three-year stay in Italy, Kauffman made her reputation as a painter of portra