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 (1766-1808) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso, 1782 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Legend of Cupid and Psyche by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Erato, the Muse of Lyric Poetry with a Putto by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Diana and her nymphs bathing by Angelica Kauffmann")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-284781).jpg "David Garrick (1717-79) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "For George Bowles Esq. Heritage, Kenwood by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906109).jpg "Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale, c. 1780-81 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-84775).jpg "Louisa Hammond by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus on Naxos, 1774 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Diana discovering the pregnancy of Callisto. Painting by Angelica Kauffmann (1740-1807). 18th century. H. 0.46 x 0.56 m. Tours, Museum of Fine Arts by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1117435).jpg "Legend of Cupid and Psyche, by Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1112586).jpg "Legend of Cupid and Psyche, by Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Head of a Woman Seen from the Front, with Turban by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_(d1806)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1740366).jpg "Portrait of Mrs Helen (Dorothea Daniel) (d. 1806) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Ulysses discovers Achilles hidden among the daughters of King Lycomedes 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, c. 1768-73 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Prince Henryk Lubomirski as Cupid, 1786 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Hope by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Young Woman")
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.jpg "The Sorrow of Telemachus, 1783. by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_Ch_-_(MeisterDrucke-1028553).jpg "Christ Blessing the Children (Let the Little Children Come to Me) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_einer_reichen_Roemerin_gegenuebe_-_(MeisterDrucke-1749935).jpg "Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Sits (Right) Opposite a Wealthy Roman Woman, Showing Her Her Three Children as Her Most Precious Possession by Angelica Kauffmann")
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 King of Naples and his Family - (MeisterDrucke-60396).jpg "Ferdinand IV (1751-1825), King of Naples, and his Family by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Juno by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_18th_century_-_(MeisterDrucke-960585).jpg "Pluto Removing Proserpine by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Bacchante by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Dr. John Morgan by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Girl by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Reading Old Man by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Young Woman in Contemplation by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Ely Family by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Penelope Awakened by Euryclea by Thomas Burke")
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.jpg "Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Vendor of Love by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Woman Weeping Beside an Urn by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Rinaldo and Armida by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Woman Seated on Stones by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Achilles Discovered by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Bride and Groom Enter a Bridal Chamber by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Juno by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of a woman, traditionally identified as Lady Hervey by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Poisoned Eleanor by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1562734).jpg "Portrait of Ludwig I of Bavaria as Crown Prince (1786-1868) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1434517).jpg "Elizabeth Bateson (née Harvey) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Music by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906086).jpg "Portrait of a Woman by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Kerr, née Fortescue, Marchioness of Lothian by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Cleone by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Theseus and Ariadne by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Family of the Earl of Gower by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Scene in a Roman Prison by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Rinaldo and Armida by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Domenica Morghen and Maddalena Volpato as the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Chevalier d")
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 as a Muse - (MeisterDrucke-791).jpg "Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse 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 "Cumaean Sibyl by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Bust Portrait of a Woman with a Lace Cap by Giuseppe Cades")
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.jpg "Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire and Viscountess Duncannon, engraved by W. Dickinson 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 "General Augustine de Lespinasse by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1725220).jpg "Monsignor Giuseppe Spina (1756-1828) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Rinaldo and Armida 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 "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Scene from the legend of Amour and Psyche by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Self Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Virgil reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Silvia, decorating herself with flowers while observed by Daphne by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Barbara St. John Bletsoe, Countess of Coventry by Angelica Kauffmann")
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 - (MeisterDrucke-102412).jpg "A Sleeping Nymph watched by a shepherd, 1780 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 "Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_later_Baroness_Macdonald_as_-_(MeisterDrucke-1719891).jpg "Portrait of Lady Louisa Leveson-Gower (1749/50-1827), later Baroness Macdonald, as Spes by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1384072).jpg "Cupid Disarmed by Euphrosyne by Thomas Burke")
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_as_a_Muse_-_(MeisterDrucke-1721498).jpg "Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_Twelfth_Earl_of_Derby_Elizabeth_Countess_of_Der_-_(MeisterDrucke-1733755).jpg "Edward Smith Stanley (1752-1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753-1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775-1851) by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1133198).jpg "Beauty, supported by Prudence, Scorns the Offering of Folly by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Turkish Woman, 1773 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Bacchanal by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. Siddons 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 "Self-portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "A Dancing Young Woman as Terpsichore by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Marie Therese Countess Meerfeld, born Countess Dietrichstein by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "Untitled by Francesco Bartolozzi")
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.jpg "Juno, Venus and Cupid, 1777 by Angelica Kauffmann")
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.jpg "The Sorrow of Telemachus by Angelica Kauffmann")
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_in_costume_for_her_Greek_Attitudes_(oil_on_canvas)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1103340).jpg "Lady Hamilton in costume for her")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by Angelica Kauffmann")
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