Nathaniel Hone the Elder
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Nathaniel Hone was an Irish-born portrait and miniature painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Self-portrait by Nathaniel Hone, circa 1760
Nathaniel Hone, 1718–84, Portrait of Harry Earl Aged 15. 1758, watercolour on ivory. Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Final, revised, version of The Conjurer, 1775.
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
Nathaniel Hone the Elder
…Reynolds, leading the Royal Academy to reject the painting. It also originally included a nude caricature which was alleged to depict fellow Academician Angelica Kauffman in the top left corner, which was painted out by Hone after Kauffman complained to the academy. The combination of a little girl and an old man has…
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