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Angelica Kauffman

1741 - 1807

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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Angelica Kauffman is the 190th most popular painter (down from 174th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Painter.

Angelica Kauffman is most famous for her portraits of 18th century European aristocrats.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Angelica Kauffman ranks 190 out of 2,023. Before her are Bernardo Bellotto, Franz Stuck, Chaim Soutine, Suzanne Valadon, Quentin Matsys, and Gerhard Richter. After her are Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Hans von Aachen, Henry Fuseli, Pieter de Hooch, Aristide Maillol, and Pietro da Cortona.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, Angelica Kauffman ranks 4. Before her are Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Peter Simon Pallas, and Princess Isabella of Parma. After her are André Grétry, Henry Fuseli, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Emperor Momozono, Benedict Arnold, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Andrea Luchesi. Among people deceased in 1807, Angelica Kauffman ranks 2. Before her is Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily. After her are Jérôme Lalande, Magtymguly Pyragy, Jeanne Baret, Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, John Newton, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Angelica Kauffman ranks 56 out of 1,015. Before her are Daniel Bovet (1907), Robert Walser (1878), Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Ursula Andress (1936), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881). After her are Richard R. Ernst (1933), Henry Fuseli (1741), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Auguste Piccard (1884), Michel Mayor (1942), and Johannes Itten (1888).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Angelica Kauffman ranks 3. Before her are Paul Klee (1879), and Arnold Böcklin (1827). After her are Henry Fuseli (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), H. R. Giger (1940), Charles Gleyre (1806), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702).

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