Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman
Born
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann

(1741-10-30)30 October 1741
Died5 November 1807(1807-11-05) (aged 66)
Known forPainting
MovementNeoclassicism
Spouses
(m. 1767; sep. 1768)
(m. 1781; died 1795)
FatherJoseph Johann Kauffmann
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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (/ˈkfmən/ KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), 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.