What a difference seven months can make. In February we published an Editorial, ‘The National Trust at 125’, which praised the organisation’s recent revitalisation of its curatorial department, and in the same issue launched a series of articles to publish research on works of art in its collections. The latest instalment, written by two of its curators, appears in
Probably the best-known female artist of the eighteenth century, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) was born in the Swiss city of Chur, where she was considered a child prodigy. Between 1758 and 1765 she travelled through Italy before settling in London in 1766, where she opened a studio and embarked on a successful career. In 1781 she returned to Rome, where her fame and wealth grew.