Angelica Kauffmann
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights
- Curriculum: Women’s History, 18th Century European History
Article abstract: Refusing to accept the traditional role for the woman artist as a painter of portraits or still lifes, Kauffmann determined to become a history painter. An early exponent of neoclassicism, she produced some of the finest works done in this style, which helped greatly to popularize the movement throughout Europe and in England.
Early Life
Angelica Kauffmann was born in a small village in Switzerland in 1741, the daughter of a minor portraitist and painter of religious murals. She was a child prodigy who received her first commission at...
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