Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1874-01-08

Horn laid siege TO her heart, and promised 10
become his wife.
The greater portion of the fashionable world
were present Al The we'd luiI. Gifts shuWrrrd
upon the BRIDE congratulations upon lbs bi ide-
groom The bells rang ou' the IN ,rriest, aud, for
short time Angelita's marriage promised to
be happy one.
Scarcely had the world ceases, to talk of the
ceremonial which had made the young Swiss
artist wife, than strange rumor rose and
passed from mouth to mouth respecting sec
ond Count Horn, then In England. Piece by
piece the story Leaked out. 1t was discovered
that Angelica had been made the dupe of q
swindler-a discharged servant-who, having
purloined his masters money and the title,
palmed himself upon the world as Swedish
noblemaB, and in that character had sought
aud obtained the hand of Angelica Kaufman
III marriage.
1t was no count with whom she linked her
fate, but thief anil forger-a criminal who,
but for the leniency and consideration OF the
real Swedish nobldman, might have ended his
| days In prison. As 1t was, he was promised d
small pension on condition of absentipg hun
self from England. lie agreed to the condi-
tons and left.
This terrible blow to the pride, it not to the
heart, of The Swiss artist brought about great
change in her mode of life. Still remaining in
England, she prosecuted her painting with Wig
pations she absiained, devoting her society al
most entirely TO her father, and amassins no
nconsiderable fortune by the exercise of the
talents With which Providence had endowed
her. Year after year passed by quiet ~ and
| nonotonousy, till At last the news reached her
| that the self styled Count Horn was dead, and
that she was widow.
"a second marriage" said johnson; sis the
| triumph of hope over experience" twas cel-
1 AupAipGfS co. u M afr
the receipt OF the Intelligence which could not
have been other than welcome, bestowed her
| hand upon au old acquaintance, one Antonio
| Zucch, with whom she left England to reside
| in Venice.
Unfortunately for Angelica, her second mar
riase was as disastrous as the hrst, though in a
| totally Inherent Way. Zuechi was something
| oil An artist, little OF an architecl,
| a great deal OF a visionary, aud, worst Of
| all, an extensive Spectator; domesticaly, lie
i was kind an aiiectonate husband hut a. his
death Angelica found the fortune she had earn
ed by her brush ly many years of hard, almos:
| incessant work, bad been FILTERED away IN idle
| speculations, and that she was left, if hot in
| actual want, at all events nearer allied to pov-
| erty than she had been since, as a little pill
| she wandered on foot with her father an his
artistic excursions about Switzerland, and over
| the sn owy Alps into Italy.
The closin years of Angelica's life WEI sad
ones. No longer ieted petted and cour,ed
she earned her living with her brush as she Hit
| ted from town I'd town, till in Rome SHE was
attacked by a malady, which after many weeks
of suffering resulted in her death, in the veal
1877, at the age Of sixty-iiye.
| Her funeral, adndu tied by the eminent Ca.
nova, was rich id honors 10 her GOTTA and in
| the procession were borne the last two picture,
| painted by her before her death; and 80 Ang II
| lea Kaufman miie her exit from the world. in
which she had eypsrenceda stranger variety
of fortune than falls to the lot of the m1iorit,
| of its toilers.