Angelica Kauffmann

Three Leagues1741–1807Neoclassicism

About

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.

Notable works

The Temptation of Eros

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Victory of Eros

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Sorrow of Telemachus

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monsignor Giuseppe Spina (1756–1828)

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bacchante

at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Cephise and her Lover discover the sleeping Cupid in the Woods of Idalia

at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Cephise cuts the sleeping Cupids' Wings

at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Gualtherius and Griselda

at Kenwood House

Works in the collection

42 works

The Temptation of Eros

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Victory of Eros

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edward Smith Stanley (1752–1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, Elizabeth, Countess of Derby (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, 1753–1797), and Their Son (Edward Smith Stanley, 1775–1851)

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Sorrow of Telemachus

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monsignor Giuseppe Spina (1756–1828)

at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bacchante

at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Cephise and her Lover discover the sleeping Cupid in the Woods of Idalia

at Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Cephise cuts the sleeping Cupids' Wings