Angelica Kauffman
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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 wa
Portrait of Angelica Kauffman by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1764
Detail of Tragedy and Comedy, painted in Rome in 1791 (National Museum in Warsaw). Harmonious and powerful colours and the soft-brushed, multi-layered style of English portraitists, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough, are typical for Kauffman's paintings.
Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well (1795), oil on canvas, 123.5 x 158.5 cm., Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Portrait of David Garrick (1764), oil on canvas, 84 x 69 cm., Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Antonio Zucchi
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Antonio Pietro Francesco Zucchi was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period.
Angelica Kauffman
…a result of her lack of formal training in male anatomy. In 1781, after her first husband's death (she had long been separated from him), she married Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795), a Venetian artist then resident in England. Shortly afterwards, she retired to Rome, where she befriended, among others, Johann Wolfgang…
Portrait (1781) by his wife, Angelica Kauffman
"Three dancing nymphs and a reclining cupid in a landscape" by Zucchi