IMARIA See also:KAUFFMANN
See also:ANNA] See also:ANGELICA (1741–1807), the once popular artist and Royal Academician, was See also:born at See also:Coire in the See also:Grisons, on the 3oth of See also:October 1741
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Her See also:father, See also:John Josef See also:Kauffmann, was a poor See also:man and mediocre painter, but apparently very successful in teaching his precocious daughter
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She rapidly acquired several See also:languages, read incessantly, and showed marked talents as a musician
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Her greatest progress, however, was in See also:painting; and in her twelfth See also:year she had become a notability, with bishops and nobles for her sitters
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In 1754 her father took her to See also:Milan
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Later visits to See also:Italy of See also:long duration appear to have succeeded this excursion; in 1763 she visited See also:Rome, returning to it again in 1764
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From Rome she passed to See also:Bologna and See also:Venice, being everywhere feted and caressed, as much for her talents as for her See also:personal charms
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See also:Writing from Rome in See also:August 1764 to his friend Franke, Win ckelmann refers to her exceptional popularity
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She was then painting his picture, a See also:half-length, of which she also made an See also:etching
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She spoke See also:Italian as well as See also:German, he says; and she also expressed her-self with facility in See also:French and See also:English—one result of the last-named accomplishment being that she painted all the English visitors to the Eternal See also:City
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" She may be styled beautiful," he adds, " and in singing may See also:vie with our best virtuosi." While at Venice, she was induced by See also:Lady See also:Wentworth, the wife of the English See also:ambassador to accompany her to See also:London, where she appeared in 1766
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One of her first See also:works was a, portrait of See also:Garrick, exhibited in the year of her arrival at " Mr Moreing's See also:great See also:room in See also:Maiden See also:Lane." The See also:rank of Lady Wentworth opened society to her, and she was everywhere well received, the royal See also:family especially showing her great favour
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Her firmest friend, however, was See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds
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In his See also:pocket-See also:book her name as " See also:Miss Angelica " or " Miss See also:Angel " appears frequently, and in 1766 he painted her, a compliment which she returned by her " Portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds," aetat
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Another instance of her intimacy with Reynolds is to be found in the variation of Guercino's " Et in See also:Arcadia ego " produced by her at this date, a subject which Reynolds repeated a few years later in his portrait of Mrs Bouverie and Mrs See also:Crewe
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When, about See also:November 1767, she was entrapped into a clandestine See also:marriage with an adventurer who passed for a See also:Swedish See also:count (the Count de See also:Horn) Reynolds befriended her, and it was doubt-less owing to his See also:good offices that her name is found among the signatories to the famous See also:petition to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king for the See also:establishment of the Royal See also:Academy
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In its first See also:catalogue of 1769 she appears with " R.A." after her name (an See also:honour which she shared
with another lady and compatriot, See also:Mary See also:Moser); and she contributed the " Interview of See also:Hector and See also:Andromache," and three other classical compositions
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From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time until 1782 she was an See also:annual exhibitor, sending sometimes as many as seven pictures, generally classic or allegorical subjects
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One of the most notable of her performances was the " Leonardo expiring in the Arms of See also:Francis the First," which belongs to the year 1778
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In 1773 she was appointed by the Academy with others to decorate St See also:Paul's, and it was she who, with Biagio Rebecca, painted the Academy's old lecture room at See also:Somerset See also:House
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It is probable that her popularity declined a little in consequence of her unfortunate marriage; but in 1781, after her first See also:husband's See also:death (she had been long separated from him), she married See also:Antonio Zucchi (1728-1795), a Venetian artist then See also:resident in See also:England
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Shortly afterwards she retired to Rome, where she lived for twenty-five years with much of her old See also:prestige
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In 1782 she lost her father; and in 1795—the year in which she painted the picture of Lady See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton—her husband
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She continued at intervals to contribute to the Academy, her last exhibit being in 1797
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After this she produced little, and in November 1807 she died, being honoured by a splendid funeral under the direction of See also:Canova
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The entire Academy of St See also:Luke, with numerous ecclesiastics and virtuosi, followed her to her See also:tomb in S
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See also:Andrea Belle Fratte, and, as at the See also:burial of See also:Raphael, two of her best pictures were carried in procession
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The works of Angelica Kauffmann have not retained their reputation
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She had a certain See also:gift of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace, and considerable skill in See also:composition
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But her See also:drawing is weak and faulty; her figures lack variety and expression; and her men are masculine See also:women
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Her colouring, however, is fairly enough defined by See also:Waagen's See also:term " cheerful." Rooms decorated by, her See also:brush are still to be seen in various quarters
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At See also:Hampton ourt is a portrait of the duchess of See also:Brunswick; in the See also:National Portrait See also:Gallery, a portrait of herself
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There are other pictures by her at See also:Paris, at See also:Dresden, in the Hermitage at St See also:Petersburg, and in the Alte Pinakothek at See also:Munich
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The Munich example is another portrait of herself; and there is a third in the Uffizi at See also:Florence
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A few of her works in private collections have been exhibited among the " Old Masters " at See also:Burlington House
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But she is perhaps best known by the numerous engravings from her designs by See also:Schiavonetti, See also:Bartolozzi and others
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Those by Bartolozzi especially still find considerable favour with collectors
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Her See also:life was written in 1810 by Giovanni de See also:Rossi
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It has also been used as the basis of a See also:romance by See also:Leon de See also:Wailly, 1838; and it prompted the charming novel contributed by Mrs See also:Richmond See also:Ritchie to the Cornhill See also:Magazine in 1875 under the See also:title of " Miss Angel
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