Angelika Kauffmann

(1741–1807) schweizisk konstnär

Angelika Kauffmann (Switzerland, 1741–1807) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Angelika Kauffmann belongs to the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’ in this site’s history of art.

Angelika Kauffmann was born in Chur and died in Rome. Angelika Kauffmann worked in Rome, Venice, and London. Wikidata associates Angelika Kauffmann with Neoclassicism. Angelika Kauffmann became a member of Royal Academy of Arts.

The best-known works include ‘Portrait of Lady Clan Henderson’, ‘Portrait of David Garrick’, and ‘Portrait of Winckelmann’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting, history painting, and Neoclassicism. The catalogue has 250 works by Angelika Kauffmann with free images. The dated works span the years 1750–1807. Works by Angelika Kauffmann are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Eremitaget. Wikidata links 4 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, Philippe-Jacques Loutherbourg d.y., Angelica Kauffman, Jean-Michel Moreau, and Reinier Vinkeles.

• Neoclassicism
• Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
• The Sorrow of Telemachus
• Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
• Sappho Inspired by Love
• Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris
• Ferdinand IV and His Family
• Hector Calling Up Paris to a Battle
• Virgil reading the ''Aeneid'' to Augustus and Octavia