Maria Anna Angelica Catharina Kauffmann, better known as Angelika Kauffmann, was born in Chur, in Switzerland. Her father Johann Kauffmann was a portrait and fresco painter, and the family soon moved to Como, where the father's most important clients, who would later become hers, were located. The girl was considered a child prodigy at an early age, receiving lessons in painting, music and languages. At 12 she painted her first self-portrait, all in all she spent a childhood surrounded by wealth and splendor.
After the death of her mother, she lived with her father in Vorarlberg, where the two were commissioned to redesign it after a church fire. Following the example of the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piazzetta she painted apostle figures, this was to remain her only murals. On commissioned trips she made portraits of bishops, counts and ordinary citizens, so she financed her studies of ancient and Renaissance art in Italy. In Florence she received a diploma from the Accademia del disegno (Eng. Academy of Drawing). She became famous for her portrait of Johann Winckelmann, founder of scientific archaeology and art history. She painted portraits of other celebrities, including those of the actor David Garrick and the most influential English painter of the 18th century, Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1767 she fell for a marriage swindler who made off with all her possessions - the marriage was later declared invalid. Kauffmann was one of the few women appointed by the king as founding members of the Royal Academy. Her father married her to the Italian classicist painter Antonio Zucchi, who also became her patron and with whom she moved to Rome. There she was in the company of artists, crown princes, aristocrats and even met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for whose "Iphigenia" she made illustrations. In 1792 she painted her most famous work "Self-portrait at the crossroads between music and painting", after which she gave herself mainly to religious themes.
She died in Rome, a bust of her was erected in the Pantheon in her honor. The Italian sculptor and most admired artist of classicism, Antonio Canova, organized a pompous funeral procession for her death, years later biographies appeared. This was followed by a portrait of her on the hundred shilling bill, a stamp of one of her paintings in Liechtenstein, and the Angelika Kauffmann Museum was established in her adopted home in Vorarlberg. Kauffmann will always retain an important position in the art world for her portraits and history paintings in the Rococo and Classicist styles and for her prominent role as a woman in art in a male-dominated world.
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-255322).jpg "Portrait of Henrietta Laura Pulteney by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Legend of Cupid and Psyche by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-84775).jpg "Louisa Hammond by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Erato, the Muse of Lyric Poetry with a Putto by Angelica Kauffmann")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-284781).jpg "David Garrick by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906109).jpg "Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "For George Bowles Esq. Heritage, Kenwood by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Catherine Skavronska, Seated Three-Quarter Length, in Neo-Classical Dress, by a Draped Curtain, Adorning a Helmet, Inscribed \"Potemkin Taurico\", with a Wreath, 1789 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Immortalia - the Nymph of Immortality by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Mythological Scene. Young Woman with Bow Turning Towards Two Armed Men by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Franziska von Kaunitz-Rietberg, née Countess Ungnad von Weissenwolf by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Marie Therese Meerfeld, née Dietrichstein by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Troilus Surprises Cressida and Diomedes. From William Shakespeare")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1763 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_comte_de_Sheffield_(1735-1821)_Pe_-_(MeisterDrucke-1314329).jpg "Portrait of John Baker-Holroyd, Earl of Sheffield (1735-1821). Painting by Angelika Kauffmann by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Prince Henryk Lubomirski as Cupid, 1786 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Rinaldo and Armida by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Miniatures and Enamels at the Fine Art Society")
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.jpg "A Sacrifice to Pan by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1133903).jpg "Portrait of a Lady, possibly a self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Zeuxis composing the picture of Juno by Francesco Bartolozzi, published in London by W. Palmer, 1785 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-portrait as Singer, Holding a Sheet of Music by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1112586).jpg "Legend of Cupid and Psyche by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Edward Smith Stanley, Twelfth Earl of Derby, with His First Wife and Their Son by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Frieze: Men Planting Trees, Women Gathering Blossoms and Watering Flowers by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1091228).jpg "Cleopatra Decorating the Tomb of Mark Anthony by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787-88 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Potocka, in the Dresden Gallery by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Sappho, engraved by Pye, 1774 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Georgiana Spencer, Henrietta Spencer and George Viscount Althorp, c. 1766 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Smith-Stanley, Countess of Derby, with Her Infant Son Edward and Her Half-Sister, Lady Augusta Campbell by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_German_archae_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103628).jpg "Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archaeologist and art historian by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Woman Floating in the Sky, Observed by a Cherub by Peltro William Tomkins")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Maria Josepha Hermenegild Esterhazy by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Separation of Abelard by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Ewer, full-length, seated in a White Dress with a Yellow Shawl, Playing a Harp, in an Interior by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-portrait Hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Three Muses in Conversation by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1421407).jpg "Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter, c.1771 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Abelard Soliciting the Hand of Heloise by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Cupid Ties the Sleeping Aglaia to a Tree by Thomas Burke")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman, formerly believed to be a Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Barbara Juliane von KrĂĽdener with Her Son Paul by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Penelope Awakened by Euryclea by Thomas Burke")
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.jpg "Allegory of Conjugal Peace by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Lady Rebecca Northwick and Her Daughter Anne Rushout by Thomas Burke")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Woman, Traditionally Identified as Lady Hervey by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Papirius Pratextatus Entreated by his Mother to Disclose the Secrets of the Deliberations of the Roman Senate by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Chevalier d")
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.jpg "Huntress with Dog by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Amor Inspires a Young Woman, Playing a Lyre with One Hand and Writing with the Other by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Cleopatra adorning Tomb of Mark Antony by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Marie Therese Countess Meerfeld, born Countess Dietrichstein by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106589).jpg "Portrait of Miss Francis Lust by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-319433).jpg "Elizabeth and Georgiana, Duchesses of Devonshire by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Giovanni Volpato by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Irish Jurist and Politician Philip Tisdall SL (1703-1777) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Virgin Mary with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Turkish Woman, 1773 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "John Simpson, the Father of Maria Susanna Lady Ravensworth by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_Peinture_dAngelika_Kauffm_-_(MeisterDrucke-959958).jpg "Self-Portrait as Bacchante by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Female Poet, Possibly Sappho by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Two lovers in a landscape by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Turkish Woman, 1773 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "General Augustine de Lespinasse by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Old Man Reading by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Sorrow of Telemachus, 1783 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Two Old Students by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Study from Life of a Kneeling Woman in Profile by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Francesco Feo by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Parting of Abelard and Heloise, before 1780 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-85005).jpg "Self Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Cymon and Iphigenia by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Hebe by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Cleone by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1122805).jpg "Portrait of Anne Miller by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Monk from Calais by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Young Woman Reading at a Table, Her Elbow Resting on a Book by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Interview Between Edgar and Elfrida by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Possibly Franciska Krasinska, Duchess of Courland by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Woman in Turkish Dress by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Insane Maria by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Apollo and the Muses by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Anne Loudon, Lady Henderson of Fordall by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Woman Resting Her Head on a Book by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Muse by Angelica Kauffmann")
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