Artists

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  Portrait of a Woman $AU 248.78 ~ 1,103.22
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  Children With A Bird's Nest And Flowers $AU 472.88
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  Self Portrait $AU 248.21 ~ 972.44

Angelika Kauffmann (1741 Chur - 1807 Rome) was taught by her father, the painter Johann Joseph Kauffmann. She traveled to Italy for the first time in 1754, then again in 1758, and remained there between 1762 and 1765 before traveling by way of Paris to London in 1766, where she lived until 1781. In England she found a patron and mentor in Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1781, while still in London, she married the Venetian architectural landscape painter Antonio Zucchi and returned with him again to Italy. The artwork of Angelika Kauffmann is located between Rococo and neolassicism. Her primary works were portraits and mythological narratives, in which she drew inspiraton from Anton Raphael Mengs and Ponpeo Girolamo Batoni, as well as from various contemporary English portraitists. Her home in Rome became a social and cultural gathering ground for artists and scholars. Her works include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1787, Goethe-National-Museum, Weimar, Self-Portrait on the Cusp of Music and Painting, 1792, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; and Ludwig I of Bavaria as Crown Prince, 1807, Neue Pinakothek, Munich.