Angelica Kauffmann

Switzerland · 1741–1807

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 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. == Early life == Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. Her family moved to Morbegno in 1742, then to Como in Lombardy in 1752 at that time under Austrian rule.

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