Angelica Kauffmann

EH was educated mostly at home. Her talent for landscape painting was such that her father had half a mind to send her to London for teaching and to make an Angelica Kauffmann of her...

Some of AH 's enduring friendships dated from the years before her marriage, either from Edinburgh or London. David Hume was a family friend; Dr James Gregory continued from Edinburgh to act as her mentor...

Sappho has inspired many original English poems, including John Lyly 's Sapho and Phao [sic], 1584; Alexander Pope 's Sapho to Phaon, 1712, and Eloisa to Abelard, 1717; and Mary Robinson 's...

In 1766 or 1767 Anne Hume sat to Angelica Kauffman for a romantic painting, Female figure weeping over a monumental urn (in memory of General Stanwick's daughter). She wrote a poetic lament on the...

MB had her portrait painted by Angelica Kauffmann .

In 1778 Elizabeth Craven had her portrait painted by George Romney , apparently for Horace Walpole , who two years later wrote that he had hung it in his favourite blue room. Romney painted...

As a beautiful actress MR was frequently painted by artists, who included Richard Cosway , Thomas Gainsborough , Angelica Kauffmann , Thomas Lawrence , Joshua Reynolds , and George Romney . As the prince's mistress...

Miss Angel traces Kauffmann 's career as that of a serious artist and working woman who becomes a society figure and a founding member of the Royal Academy in London, but slants its representation...

ATR serialised in the Cornhill Magazine her only historical novel, Miss Angel, on the life of artistAngelica Kauffmann .

Anne Home produced a good deal of occasional poetry during the years 1766-7. Elegies among these include several relating to young women. An Inscription on an Urn in memory of Miss Susanna Stenwix unfortunately lost...