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previous round: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/game/5558033
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This Round: Angelica Kauffmann 1741 – 1807

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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

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While Kauffman produced many types of art, she identified herself primarily as a history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century. History painting was considered the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during this time period and, under the direction of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the Royal Academy made a strong effort to promote it to a native audience more interested in commissioning and buying portraits and landscapes. Despite the popularity that Kauffman enjoyed in British society, and her success there as an artist, she was disappointed by the relative apathy of the British towards history painting. Ultimately she left Britain for the continent, where history painting was better established, held in higher esteem and patronized.

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Choose your favourite Angelica Kauffmann painting

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ps. it was SO difficult to only choose eight paintings! One is more beautiful than the other!

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1) Cumaean Sibyl (After Domenichino) (circa 1763)

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2) Mrs. Hugh Morgan and Her Daughter (c. 1771)

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3) Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Painting of Helen of Troy (c. 1778)

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4) Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse (1780-1781)

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5) The Sorrow of Telemachus (1783)

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6) Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus and Octavia (1788)

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7) Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music (1794)

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8) Immortalia, the Nymph of Immortality, Receiving Nameplates from Two Swans

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DAUGHTER FIVE

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The names are Shakespearean, like Angelica‘s name

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1) Viola Perdita Lucetta Hermia Cleopatra Adriana Audrey Elizabeth Julia Miranda Silvia Hecate Phrynia
2) Sycorax Nell Juliet Emilia Beatrice Aemelia Constance Hermione Lucrèce Phebe Aliena Joan Tamora
3) Doll Barnardine Phoebe Mab Hero Cordelia Agrippa Bianca Francis Kate Nerissa Sylvia Jacquenetta
4) Titania Octavia Katharine Gertrude Blanche Alice Cressida Hippolyta Margaret Portia Blanche Luce Thaisa
5) Calphurnia Puck Margery Imogen Desdemona Andromache Cassandra Goneril Katherina Olivia Titiana
6) Timandra Ophelia Katherine Gray Celia Angelica Diana Iris Maria Regan Ceres Lychorida
7) Virgilia Dionyza Rosalind Mariana Isabella Dorcas Anne Charmian Helen Lavinia Patience Ursula Meg
8) Mopsa Valeria Paulina Lennox Helena Claribel Ariel Eleanor Jessica Marina Rosaline Francisca Volumnia

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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This message was edited 12/18/2024, 7:35 AM