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
Mary Moser
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Mary Moser was an English painter who was one of the most celebrated female artists in 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768, Moser painted portrai
Angelica Kauffman
…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. Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland…
Portrait of Moser by George Romney
Brooklyn Museum – Flowers Still Life (Jardinière of Flowers) – Mary Moser