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Mar 2, 2021 · Published on 2 March 2021. Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser were the only two female founders of the Royal Academy. Here, we take a closer look at their careers and the challenges they faced within the RA. An earlier version of this article was published in 2015. There are three key groups of women who have shaped the way the RA exists and ...
- The meteoric rise of Angelica Kauffman RA - Royal Academy of Arts
Published on 2 January 2024. Historian Jenny Uglow tells the...
- The meteoric rise of Angelica Kauffman RA - Royal Academy of Arts
Signature. Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (/ ˈkaʊfmən / KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, [a] was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome.
- Portrait of A Lady
- Zeuxis Selecting Models For His Helen of Troy
- Cornelia, Mother of The Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
- Self-Portrait of The Artist Hesitating Between The Arts of Music and Painting
- Religion Attended by The Virtues
Kauffman’s strong reputation for creating incisive portraits helped her become one of the first female members of the Royal Academy (and one of the last ones to join for a century and a half afterward). In this portrait, which scholars initially thought was meant to represent Kauffman herself, she depicts a woman whose identity remains unknown; bec...
During the 18th century, history paintings—large-scale canvases depicting episodes from ancient times—were considered the highest art form, and Kauffman excelled in that mode, which was then considered to be one reserved largely for men. In this one, Kauffman depicts the Greek painter Zeuxis getting ready to paint an image of Helen of Troy—without ...
Relying once again on a moment from ancient history for her subject matter, here Kauffman depicts the second-century BCE Roman woman Cornelia in a genre known as exemplum virtutis, or an “example of virtue.” Cornelia, the daughter of Scipio Africanus and the mother of the politicians Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus, was seen as the pinnacle of virtue i...
There was a point in Kauffman’s career when it seemed as though she was destined to become a musician. The daughter of a painter, she was educated in the arts, and she was seen early on as a musical prodigy prized for her soprano voice. Ultimately, however, she went on to become a painter, and this painting allegorizes her struggle to choose betwee...
Kauffman produced this allegorical scene for a patron in England, where her works enjoyed an unusual amount of visibility after she departed for Italy because they were reproduced in the form of prints. As it happens, however, all that currently exists of the work are engravings of it. One of the first works ever to enter the United Kingdom’s natio...
- Alex Greenberger
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 – 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated female artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy in 1768 (along with Angelica Kauffman ), Moser painted portraits but is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers.
Jan 2, 2024 · Published on 2 January 2024. Historian Jenny Uglow tells the story of how Angelica Kauffman became a founding Member of the RA and one of the most revered artists in Georgian Britain. An earlier version of this article was published in the Summer 2020 issue of RA Magazine. In October 1766, four months after Angelica Kauffman arrived in London ...
Feb 28, 2024 · In 1768 such contacts ensured that she was one of only two women – the other being the painter Mary Moser – among the 36 founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts. When the Academy moved into its elegant new premises at Somerset House in 1780, Kauffman was given a prestigious commission to paint four ceiling paintings depicting the ‘Elements of Art’.
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Jun 2, 2016 · The recent foundation of the Royal Academy is memorialised in this group portrait of 35 men, two of them naked models, preparing to embark on a life class. Remarkably, among the 34 founder members there were two women, Mary Moser (1744-1819) and Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807). Notoriously, however, Zoffany’s institutional portrait excluded them.
