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KAUFFMAN, Angelica Katharina (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed (Angelica Kauffman) to an unidentified correspondent [?John Boydell], Rome, 6 February 1789, 2 pages, 4to , integral leaf removed, small printed label, trace of guard
KAUFFMAN, Angelica Katharina (1741-1807). Autograph letter signed (Angelica Kauffman) to an unidentified correspondent [?John Boydell], Rome, 6 February 1789, 2 pages, 4to , integral leaf removed, small printed label, trace of guard Kauffman states that the pictures are ready to be sent and asks for the agreed sum of 'four hundred guineas the two pictures'. She gives advice on the varnishing 'before they are placed in the Gallery' and pays her correspondent a fulsome compliment, 'I think your own statue aught to be placed in the most conspicuous part of the gallery -- an honour due to one so nobel minded, and who has always proved to be a true encourager of the fine arts'. She adds greetings from 'Mr Zucchi'. Kauffman, who was Swiss by birth, worked in London between 1766 and 1781. She signed Sir Joshua Reynolds's petition to George III to establish a Royal Academy and was one of the first two women Royal Academicians. In 1781 she married the Venetian painter Antonio Zucchi with whom she had worked on the decoration of Coventry House. John Boydell built the Shakespeare Gallery for the display of pictures illustrative of the works of Shakespeare. The painting of Miranda and Ferdinand in The Tempest (1781) was one of Kauffman's most famous works.