Artist of the Day, November 14, 2022: Angelica Kauffmann, A Swiss painter (#1699)

 Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807) was a Swiss painter and one of the most prominent and respected female artists of the 18th century. During a three-year stay in Italy, Kauffmann became part of the burgeoning circle of artists, architects, archaeologists, and historians who looked to the Greek and Roman empires for inspiration. Having made English connections through the community in Rome, she moved to London in 1766. Kauffmann soon became a respected society portraitist. She joined Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds as an early member of the Royal Academy and was one of only two female founding Academicians. The subject of this painting—Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale—was known for her kindness and beauty, qualities Kauffmann captured through fluid brushwork and a soft color palette.

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 Ms. Angelica Kauffmann

Self-portrait with a sheet of music, 1753

Cumaean Sibyl (after Domenichino) 1763

Portrait of Winckelmann, 1764

Portrait of Lady Louisa Leveson Gower as Spes (Goddess of Hope) 1767

The Family of the Earl of Gower, 1772

Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus, 1774

A Sybil, 1775

Portrait of a Lady, 1775

The Victory of Eros, 1775

Portrait of John Simpson, 1777

Valentine, Proteus, Sylvia and Giulia in the Forest (Scene from
"Two Gentlemen of Verona" Act V, Scene IV) 1788

Portrait of Countess A.S. Protasova with her Nices, 1788

Countess Anna Protassowa with niece, 1788

Portrait of Eleanor, Countess of Lauderdale, 1786

Pliny the Younger and His Mother at Misenum, 79 A.D, 1785

The Sorrow of Telemachus, 1783

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso, 1782

Portrait of a Lady as a Vestal Virgin, 1782

Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse, 1781

Scene with Miranda and Ferdinand, 1782

Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, 1790

Michael Novosielski, 1791

Praxiteles Giving Phryne his Statue of Cupid, 1794

Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating between
the Arts of Music and Painting, 1794

Portrait of a Women at Her Toilet, 1795

 Three singers, 1795

 Christ and the Samaritan woman at the well, 1796

Study of a Standing Woman, 1796

Henrietta Laura Pulteney