![]() ![]() In 1794, she painted Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music in which she emphasizes the difficult choice she had faced in choosing painting as her sole career and the dedication to her mother’s death. In 1781, Kauffman married Antonio Zucchi. ![]() The four large ceiling paintings portray four female figures as allegories of Invention, Composition, Design, and Color. This artwork is visual representation of the theories that Reynolds set out in his Discourses on Art. In 1778, Kauffman was commissioned by the Royal Academy to paint a set of four ‘Elements of Art’ to be displayed in a new Council chamber. During that time, she painted the Academy’s old lecture room at Somerset House with another artist Biagio Rebecca. In 1773, she was appointed by the Academy to decorate St. From 1769-1782, Kauffman was an annual exhibitor with the Royal Academy who presented seven pictures on classical or allegoric subjects. In 1766, Kauffman became a good friend with Joshua Reynolds and commemorated in the portraits they painted of each other. In 1765, Kauffman established a reputation as an artist and was elected a member of the Roman Accademia di San Luca in Italy. In 1757, she accompanied her father to Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/Austria where her father was working for the local bishop. Her family moved to Morbegno in 1742 and Como in Lombardy in 1752. ![]() ![]() Her father was an Austrian muralist and painter. Kauffman was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland on October 1741. She was one of the two female painters in the Royal Academy in London in 1768. She was a skilled portraitist, history painter, landscape and decoration painter. She was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Most of the notable artists from 17th and 18th century were males. ![]()
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