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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (/ ˈ k aʊ f m ə n / KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
View all 82 artworks. Angelica Kauffman lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of Swiss Neoclassicism and Rococo. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- October 30, 1741
- November 5, 1807
Maria Anna Angelica Katharina Kauffman. Nacimiento: 30 de octubre de 1741; Chur, Graubünden, Switzerland. Fallecimiento: 5 de noviembre de 1807; Rome, Italy. Nacionalidad: Swiss. Movimiento: Neoclasicismo Rococó. Campo: pintura. Influenciado por: Anton Raphael Mengs. Institución de arte: Royal Academy of Arts.
Angelica Kauffmann fue una artista extremadamente prolífica que consiguió en su época una enorme popularidad y fortuna. Los temas que abordó en sus cuadros son en su mayoría retratos, aunque también abundan los temas mitológicos y alegóricos, los históricos o los religiosos.
Angelica Kauffmann fue una pintora neoclásica famosa en toda Europa por sus retratos. Nació en Suiza, mas su padre era originario de Alemania y su familia materna, de Austria, donde se crió.
See paintings and preparatory drawings by Kauffman, including some of her finest self-portraits, her celebrated ceiling paintings for the Royal Academy’s first home in Somerset House, as well as history paintings of subjects including Circe and Cleopatra, and discover the remarkable life of the artist whom one of her contemporaries described ...
In around 1770 she began to focus principally on history paintings, and along with Benjamin West (one of the few successful history painters working in England) she was one of the first Royal Academy members to exhibit British history paintings and helped to make the genre popular.
