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Angelica Kauffmann

1741

WA-00116964

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Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationArtsy· 85%
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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.78.221
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1768.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (11)

Juno and the Peacock

1780 · Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

Plate: 20.5 × 16.7 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Sheet: 23.4 × 18.9 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Juno and the Peacock

1770 · Etching on paper

21 × 16.3 cm (8 5/16 × 6 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Resting Her Head on a Book

1770 · Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper

Plate: 19.2 × 15.8 cm (7 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 17.6 cm (8 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Dancing Young Woman as Terpsichore

1770 · oil on canvas

Overall: 91.5 x 70.8 cm (36 x 27 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Muse

1766 · Etching with aquatint, on ivory laid paper

Image: 19.5 × 15.5 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/8 in.); Plate: 21.5 × 16.5 cm (8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 23.5 × 18.5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter

1766 · Oil on canvas

63.2 × 76.3 cm (24 7/8 × 30 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 89.8 × 10.2 cm (30 1/4 × 35 3/8 × 4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Woman at Spinet

1761 · Graphite, heightened with white chalk, on blue prepared ground, on off-white wove paper, tipped onto ivory wove paper

13 × 10.6 cm (5 1/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Amor inspireert een jonge vrouw, die met de ene hand een lier tokkelt, en met de andere hand schrijft

1751 · brush on paper, pencil, ink

height: 257 cm, width: 211 cm

Rijksmuseum

Bruid en bruidegom betreden een bruidsvertrek

1751 · pen on ink, prepared paper, chalk

height: 190 cm, width: 262 cm

Rijksmuseum

Venus en Amor

1751 · brush on paper, chalk, ink

height: 191 cm, width: 161 cm

Rijksmuseum

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Young Woman Reading

1700 · Black chalk, red chalk and graphite, on cream laid paper

16.1 × 14.3 cm (6 3/8 × 5 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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11 published of 11 catalogued · 10 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Rijksmuseum
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Bruid en bruidegom betreden een bruidsvertrek
1751 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Amor inspireert een jonge vrouw, die met de ene hand een lier tokkelt, en met de andere hand schrijft
1751 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
A Dancing Young Woman as Terpsichore
1770 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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