Kirsten Tambling - Sense & Sensibility
Kirsten Tambling reviews Sense & Sensibility - Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists by Franny Moyle.
18th Century Women Artists
Angelica Kauffman was a talented artist with multiple skills. She was adept with a glass harmonica, and in 1768, the Danish poet Helfrich Peter Sturz described her playing it in her London studio, eliciting
haunting chimes from a set of gradated glasses, with ‘her large expressive eyes devoutly cast upwards’.
- She also played the cittern.
- Delighted guests with poetry recitations.
Her studio was also a place for portrait sittings, such as the one with the Duchess of Brunswick in 1767, where Kauffman depicted her in
flowing classical drapery of sumptuous white and blue, holding her infant son.
Author's summary: Review of 18th-century women artists.
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