Person

Angelika Kauffmann

Swiss Neoclassical painter who has a successful career in London and Rome

b. 1741 CE – d. 1807 CE World The Atlantic Lands

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (October 30, 1741 – November 5, 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, is a Swiss Neoclassical painter who has a successful career in London and Rome.

Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann is a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.

She is one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.