She was adored then abandoned.
It took the seminal essay by American art historian and feminist Linda Nochlin (1931–2017), provocatively titled
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?
, so that we think about rediscovering it.
Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) was however in her time the most renowned female painter with her eleven years younger, the Frenchwoman Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun.
In London, she finally benefits from a retrospective;
event long announced and which the Covid had further delayed.
It is far from exhaustive;
Russian museums which hold at least six masterpieces are excluded from the loan circuit.
However, in the three vast exhibition rooms of the Sackler Gallery, an extension of Burlington House which has been, in London, since 1868, the headquarters of the Royal Academy of Arts, around thirty paintings - a significant number of which are not had never been seen in the United Kingdom before - enough to account for an exceptional career…
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