![]() ![]() (She was then painting his picture, a half-length of which she also made an etching.) She spoke Italian as well as German, he says, and expressed herself with facility in French and English - one result of the last-named accomplishment being that she became a popular portraitist for British visitors to Rome. Writing from Rome in August 1764 to his friend Franke, Winckelmann refers to her popularity. ![]() From Rome she passed to Bologna and Venice, everywhere feted for her talents and charm. In 1763 she visited Rome, returning again in 1764. Later visits to Italy of long duration followed. Angelica rapidly acquired several languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz, read incessantly and showed talent as a musician, but her greatest progress was in painting, and by her twelfth year she had become a notability, with bishops and nobles for her sitters. ![]() It was he who taught his precocious daughter. Her father, Joseph Johann Kauffman, was a relatively poor man but a skilled painter, who was often traveling for his work. She was born at Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland, but grew up in Schwarzenberg in Vorarlberg/ Austria where her family originated. ![]()
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