Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating between the Arts of Music and PaintingĪngelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) National Trust, Nostell Priory It was in Rome at the age of 53 that Angelica painted her large Self Portrait of the Artist Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting (1794). Grief-stricken, they moved to Naples, where Angelica made sketches for a royal portrait, and then to Rome, where she became close friends with the renowned writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe whom she painted in 1787. However, when her father died in the city in January 1782, Angelica couldn't bear to stay. In July that year, accompanied by her father, they sailed for Ostend and eventually settled in Venice, where Angelica's portraits were in high demand. In 1781, in London, Angelica married the Venetian artist Antonio Zucchi – a man, by all accounts, who was the opposite of her first husband. Two months after her arrival, she wrote to her father: 'I have four rooms, one in which I paint, the other where I set up my finished paintings as is here the custom the people come into the house to sit – to visit me – or to see my work I could not possibly receive people in a poorly furnished house.' ![]() Although 'self-advertisement was thought to be unfeminine', she was a canny self-promoter. In 1766, encouraged by Reynolds, Angelica moved to London, where she introduced the latest neoclassical ideas and established herself as a professional artist. ![]() ![]() Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807) Wolverhampton Arts and Heritage
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