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Angelica Kauffman

1741 - 1807

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Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Angelica Kauffman has received more than 553,973 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Angelica Kauffman is the 174th most popular painter (up from 178th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 46th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Painter.

Angelica Kauffman is most famous for her portraits of 18th century European aristocrats.

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  • 2.78

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Angelica Kauffman ranks 174 out of 2,023. Before her are Chaim Soutine, Niko Pirosmani, Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Utrillo, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and James Ensor. After her are Hugo van der Goes, Pinturicchio, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Shishkin, Bernardo Bellotto, and Fra Bartolomeo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1741, Angelica Kauffman ranks 3. Before her are Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Princess Isabella of Parma. After her are Henry Fuseli, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Peter Simon Pallas, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Andrea Luchesi, Benedict Arnold, Jean-Antoine Houdon, André Grétry, and Johann Kaspar Lavater. Among people deceased in 1807, Angelica Kauffman ranks 1. After her are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Jérôme Lalande, Magtymguly Pyragy, Jeanne Baret, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Henry Benedict Stuart, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, John Newton, and Johannes Nikolaus Tetens.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Angelica Kauffman ranks 42 out of 1,015. Before her are Karl Barth (1886), Adelaide of Italy (931), Ursula Andress (1936), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Jacob Bernoulli (1654). After her are Felix Bloch (1905), Albert II, Duke of Austria (1298), Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926), Benjamin Constant (1767), and Auguste Piccard (1884).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Angelica Kauffman ranks 3. Before her are Paul Klee (1879), and Arnold Böcklin (1827). After her are Johannes Itten (1888), Henry Fuseli (1741), H. R. Giger (1940), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), Albert Anker (1831), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), Matthäus Merian (1593), and Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889).

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