Angelica KauffmannSuíça, 1741–1807Der lesende Greis
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Na vida de Angelica Kauffmann
A vida inteirac. 1762
Meets Benjamin West and Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein
In Florence Kauffman met the painters Benjamin West and Johann Friedrich Reiffenstein.
1762
Moves to Florence and meets Neoclassicism
In June 1762 Kauffman and her family moved to Florence, where she first encountered the style that would be called Neoclassicism.
October 1762
The academies of Florence and Bologna elect her
In October 1762 Angelica was elected a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and became an honorary member of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna.
1763
Meets the English community in Rome
Moving to Rome in January 1763, Kauffman was introduced to the British community there; as she learned more English and continued with portraiture, she became a popular portraitist for British visitors to Rome.
1764
Her portrait of Winckelmann
In Rome Kauffman painted a half-length portrait of the art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann and also made an etching of it; in August 1764 Winckelmann wrote to a friend about her popularity: she spoke Italian and German, handled French and English with ease, could be called beautiful, and in singing could vie with the best virtuosi.
1765
A journey with Lady Wentworth: Bologna, Venice, Paris
Accompanied by Lady Wentworth, the wife of the British ambassador, Kauffman travelled for the first time without her father, to Bologna, Venice and Paris, where she studied the works of Rubens.
![[Juden in der Synagoge; Jews in the Synagogue; Synagogue des Juifs], Rembrandt, 1648](https://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/rembrandt-ab3-0154/max/000001.jpg)
