Angelica Kauffmann

Angelica Kauffmann Angelica Kauffman was a brilliant pioneer who developed works of art like that of other great women artists but did it in the midst of the mainstream British art world. She was multilingual and cultured and has traveled much since she was younger. She was well-connected, well-respected, and dearly loved by some of the most famous artists of her day and was good friends with both Joshua Reynolds and Johann Wolfgang Goethe. She was thus one of just two women legally signing the deed establishing the London-based Royal Academy. She was able to successfully sidestep the sexual innuendo...
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