Angelica KauffmannSwiss, 1741–1807Figure group
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Yes, on view now
Where is “Figure group” now? Victoria and Albert Museum, Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery, London. Yes, on view now. Checked September 25, 2026.
London, United Kingdom
RoomCeramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery
Open now· until 10:00 PM
On public display.
- Checked
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- C.274-1935
What it shows
In the catalog
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- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
In the life of Angelica Kauffmann
The whole life1769–1782
An annual exhibitor at the Royal Academy
From 1769 until 1782 Kauffman exhibited at the Royal Academy every year, sometimes sending as many as seven pictures, generally on classical or allegorical subjects.
1770s
Engravers reproduce her pictures
At the same time Kauffman began to work with engravers who copied her pictures for wide distribution, and she became a commercially successful artist.
1773
Chosen to decorate St Paul’s Cathedral
In 1773 Kauffman, the only woman among the artists chosen, was appointed to decorate St Paul’s Cathedral in London, but the scheme was never carried out.
1775
The scandal over Nathaniel Hone’s “The Conjurer”
In 1775 the Academician Nathaniel Hone, a critic of Kauffman’s friendship with Reynolds, courted controversy with his satirical picture “The Conjurer”, seen as an attack on the fashion for Italian Renaissance art and a ridicule of Reynolds; the Academy rejected it, and it had originally included a nude caricature of Kauffman in one corner, which Hone painted out after she complained.
