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Angelica Kauffmann, R.A., Her Life and Her Works EX LlBRl THE GETTY PROVENANCE INDEX This edition is limited to lOOO copies for sale in Great Britain and the United States. I ANGELICA KAUFFMANN, R.A. HER LIFE AND HER WORKS BT DR. G. C. WILLIAMSON THE KEATS LETTERS, PAPERS AND OTHER RELICS Reproduced in facsimile from the late Sir Charles Dilke's Bequest to the Corporation of Hampstead. Foreword by Theodore Watts-Dunton and an Intro- duction by H. Buxton Forman. With 8 Portraits of Keats, and 57 Plates in collotype. Limited to 320 copies. Imperial 4to. OZIAS HUMPHRY: HIS LIFE AND WORKS With numerous Illustrations in colour, photogravure and black and white. Demy 410. MURRAY MARKS AND HIS FRIENDS With numerous Illustrations. Demy 8vo. DANIEL GARDNER Painter in Pastel and Gouache. A Brief Account of His Life and Works. With 9 Plates in colour, 6 photogravures, and very numerous reproductions in half-tone. Demy 4to. THE JOHN KEATS MEMORIAL VOLUME By various distinguished writers. Edited by Dr. G. C. Williamson. Illustrated. Crown 410. Dr. G. C. WILLUMSON and LADY VICTORIA MANNERS THE LIFE AND WORK of JOHN ZOFFANY, R.A. With numerous Illustrations in photogravure, colour and black and white. Limited to 500 copies. Demy 4to. THE BODLEY HEAD Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2013 http://archive.org/details/angelicakauffmanOOmann SELF PORTRAIT OF ANGELICA. From the original painting in the possessio?! of the Duke of Rutland and hanging at Belvoir Castle. The Duke also owns the original sketchfor this portrait. ANGELICA KAUFFMANN, R.A. HER LIFE AND HER WORKS By LADY VICTORIA MANNERS AND Dr. G. C. WILLIAMSON with seventy-nine ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR AND IN BLACK & WHITE NEW YORK BRENTANO'S PUBLISHERS Clay Sons, Ltd., Bu«say, Sufclk Made and Printed in G,cat Britain by Richard PREFACE The issue of this book was inspired by the discovery in the Royal Academy Library of a certain MS. more fully alluded to in our introductory chapter, but it would have been impossible for the volume to have been written, had we not received a courteous permission from the authorities at the Royal Academy to make use of this document in any way that seemed fit. We desire to express to the Council of the Academy our sincere thanks for the advantage offered to us, and to Donna Stella Vitelleschi for the pains that she has taken in reading and translating the document. We have been assisted in every possible way by the owners of pictures painted by Angelica, and would like to mention especially the names of certain persons who have gone out of their way to render us all the aid in their power. At the head of this list stands the name of His Majesty the King, who has graciously permitted us to reproduce one of the pictures in his possession. We have also to thank the Marquis of Ailesbury, Earl Amherst, the Marquess of Bristol, Lord Berwick, Colonel Bonomi, Dr. Lionel Cust, the Marquess Curzon, Baron de Cosson, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Durham, the Marquess of Exeter, Sir Hugo Fitzherbert, Sir Richard Graham, Lady Hoare, the Earl of Home, Sir John Hall, Sir R. Harvey, Sir H. Holden, Mary Countess of Ilchester, Captain Johnston, Mr. King, Lord Lascelles, Lord Leconfield, Colonel Croft Lyons, the Earl of Morley, Lady Muir, the Duchess of Norfolk, Lord O'Hagan, the Earl of Powis, the Duke of Portland, Viscount and Vis- countess Portman, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Lord Riddell, the Earl of Rosebery, the Earl of Radnor, Mrs. Birch Reynardson, the Duke of Rutland, the trustees of Lord St. Oswald, Sir Samuel Scott, Lord Southampton, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Stair, the Earl of Strafford, the Duke of Sutherland, Mr. W. H. Stephenson, Sir H. Wake, the Countess of Yarborough, Senator Lanciani, and many other persons. We are also greatly indebted to Messrs. Agnew, Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods, Mr. Chas. Davis, Messrs. Knoedler, Messrs. Tooth and the authorities of the Victoria and Albert Museum and British Museum. Much kindly assistance we also owe to several persons who have passed away while this book was in progress. Lord Brownlow, Earl Spencer, Mr. Burdett-Coutts, Mr. Gery Milner-Gibson-Cullum, Sir Edward Coates, and Mr. W. S. Childe- Pemberton. vii viii PREFACE We would like especially to thank Mr. Roberts for very much important information. His collection of documents relative to the painters and paintings of the eighteenth century, and especially to their vicissitudes in the auction room, is not equalled by that of any other writer, and he has with great kindli- ness gone through his lists, and supplied us with many pieces of information respecting pictures which could have been obtained from no one else. We have also to thank him for information respecting engravings, autograph letters, auction sales, etc. We must not, also, forget to thank the Editor of the Farington Diary for kindly permission to quote extensively from his stately volumes, and would like to take this opportunity of saying how grateful all writers on art should be to him, for having rescued those invaluable Diaries, and for presenting them, with important notes, as a mine of information in which persons interested in the eighteenth century can dig with the certainty of finding nuggets of value and importance. For material and for permission to make use of what has already been printed, and for kindly assistance in various directions, we should like especially to thank Col. Bonomi, Mr. Maurice Brockwell, Mr. Bolton, Mr. Caw, Mr. Craigie, Mr. Arthur Dasent, the Hon. Hew Dalrymple, His Excellency Count de Salis, Miss Driicker, Mr. Finberg, Mr. H. W. Grose, Mrs. Gurney, Mr. Helm, Mr. Hurlbutt, Mr. Lamb (the Secretary of the Royal Academy), Mr. Milner, the Rev. Father J. H. Pollen, Mr. Ralph Nevill, Miss D. O. Shilton, Sir Arthur Shipley, and the Hon. Frederic Wallop, while we must not fail to express how indebted we are to all the books hitherto written upon Angelica, especially to Miss Gerard's memoir. We trust that, in making extracts from all these volumes, we have not over-stepped the privileges of gleaning in rich fields, nor gone beyond the limits of justifiable and courteous quotation. The following discoveries have been made during printing : Mr. Arthur F. Hill, of 140, New Bond Street, has in his possession a very lightly painted and delicately coloured portrait of Miss Harrop, the singer, who married Joah Bates, who conducted the first Handel Commemoration at Westminster Abbey in 1784. This was the portrait exhibited by Angelica at the Royal Academy in 1781, and it has been engraved by Delattre. Lt.-General Sir Raleigh Egerton has in his possession an oil painting, depicting the awaking of Penelope by Euryclea, which was engraved by Bartolozzi. The picture is at present lent to the Grosvenor Art Gallery at Chester. There are four Studies in the possession of Major Haldane Macfall, The White House, Perham Crescent, South Kensington, W. 14, which were, in all probability, painted by Angelica. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. Introductory ............ i II. Early Life ............ 9 III. Angelica's First Marriage ......... 29 IV. The Royal Academy and Various Pictures ...... 36 V. Angelica and Ryland .......... 52 VI. Italy and Goethe ........... 56 VII. Lady Hamilton and Others ......... 78 VIII. The Death of Zucchi .......... 90 IX. Last Days ............ 97 X. Antonio Zucchi ........... 117 XI. Some Notable Pictures .......... 124 XII. Angelica's Decorative Work 129 APPENDICES The newly discovered document containing the list of the Paintings executed BY Angelica after she left England in 1781, translated from the Italian BY Donna Stella Vitelleschi ......... 141 List of works by or attributed to Angelica, arranged in alphabetical order UNDER owners' NAMES ........... I77 Pictures by Angelica in America ......... 217 Portraits of Angelica by Sir Reynolds J. ....... 219 Some Etchings by Angelica Kauffmann ........ 220 List of the chief Engravings after Angelica Kauffmann .... 222 A brief list of the chief Pictures by Angelica that have been sold at auction 231 ix X CONTENTS PAGE Pictures exhibited by Angelica at the Royal Academy, and at the Exhibitions THAT preceded IT ........... 236 Some autograph letters by Angelica Kauffmann that have been sold at auction 240 An abstract of Angelica's will .......... 241 A note on Bibliography ........... 247 Index ....... ..... 249 SKETCH BY ANGELICA FOR HER OWN PORTRAIT. Originallv in the XorthiLUck collection^ it notv hangs nt Behoir Castle by the side of the oilpainting. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS COLOUR To face page SELF PORTRAIT OF ANGELICA Frontispiece ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 40 CUPID ASLEEP 52 THE TRIUMPH OF VENUS 54 CYMON AND IPHIGENIA 56 THE TOMB OF SHAKESPEARE ) THE BIRTH OF SHAKESPEARE j ANGELICA IN THE CHARACTER OF DESIGN LISTENING TO THE INSPIRATION OF POETRY 80 MARGARET, LADY LUCAN 128 HONBLE. ANNE DAMER 192 MORNING AMUSEMENT 204 BLACK AND WHITE SKETCH BY ANGELICA FOR HER OWN PORTRAIT ANGELICA FROM A MINIATURE BY PASTORINI 1 MME DE KRUDENER AND HER INFANT SON—FROM THE PICTURE IN THE LOUVRE STUDY BY ANGELICA FOR CUPID DISTRESSED BY THREE NYMPHS . ;1 PRINT FROM ANGELICA'S DRAWING OF TWO NYMPHS ADORNING THE BUST OF r THE GOD PAN ] THREE EARLY DERBY BISCUIT PORCELAIN GROUPS 4 HOPE (A PORTRAIT OF HERSELF) ) ^^'"'^^'^ ^ ANGELICA KAUFFMANN | ^ * PORTRAIT OF ANGELICA BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS MRS. JOHN HUNTER (?) :} THE DUCHESS OF BRUNSWICK, SISTER TO GEORGE III, WITH HER ELDEST SON, SIGNED AND DATED 1767 29 xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS To face page HENRY LOFTUS, EARL OF ELY, THEIR NIECE DOROTHY MONROE, AND ANGELICA HERSELF AT THE CLAVICHORD, WITH A BLACK SERVANT IN THE BACKGROUND 37 DORCAS BAGWELL, AFTERWARDS MRS. BOUSFIELD 38 ANGELICA, BY HERSELF ^ MISS FRANCES CUST AT THE AGE OF 2| j PELEUS AND THETIS 49 DRAWING IN BLACK CHALK OF LADY RUSHOUT AND HER DAUGHTER ..
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