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Frederick de Horn (died 1780 or 1781) (real name Brandt) was the first husband of the painter Angelica Kauffman. According to contemporary sources, which may not be reliable, he was an imposter and bigamist who posed as a Swedish count.
Nov 11, 2007 · At twenty-six in 1767 at St James’s Church, Piccadilly, she married a conman who called himself Count Frederick de Horn, claimed to be a rich Swedish nobleman and who already had one wife if not more.
Frederick de Horn (died 1780 or 1781) (real name Brandt) was the first husband of the painter Angelica Kauffman. According to contemporary sources, which may not be reliable, he was an imposter and bigamist who posed as a Swedish count.
Nov 28, 1998 · At the age of 26, Miss Angel secretly married one "Count Frederick de Horn," who was soon revealed as an impostor and fortune hunter. Less than three months later, the marriage was annulled.
Mar 1, 2021 · The year before the inauguration of the Royal Academy, however, Angelica's life was marred by a terrible scandal: she was duped into marrying a man who presented himself as Frederick de Horn, a wealthy Swedish count. He was in fact a brute, a swindler and a penniless valet.
However, having come to London alone, her reputation was almost irrevocably tarred when she married Frederick de Horn in 1767. Rumoured to be impotent, de Horn was surely a bigamist, and it is thought the pseudo-Swedish Count had tricked Kauffman into marrying him so that he could stay in England.
During the late 1760s, while in London, she fell for a man she thought was Count Frederick de Horn, a member of an influential Swiss family. They married November 22, 1767, in Piccadilly, England. Kauffman soon discovered, however, that the man she had married was not the count himself but a desperado impersonating the count.
