The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-03

After wandering through Bologna,
Parma, Florence and Rome, always en-
cOuntering the same overflow of work
and the same idolizing consideration
! from the rich, talented and noble, par
ticularly the English residents in
Rome. she was finally persuaded by her
friends to forego che unusual art Op-
portunities presented by the Eternal
city and TO try her fortune in London.
Her artistic associations in Italy had,
/ in some ways, been most fortunate,
/ Winckelmann' strenuous efforts to
restore the Greek ideals making SO
great an impression upon her that ii
was impossible for her thenceforth to
! draw a face without giving a Greek
| profile. This devotion to mythOtogical
( creations and the glories of the Per-
/ iclean era frequently laid her work
| open TO the criticism of those who con-
sidered it superficial and oversents-
mental, but her delicate cOloring, grace
: full grouping and sympathetic interpre-
| tationS did much to counteTbalance
| these generally admitted faults.
| She instantly became the rage in
/ London. Reynolds, Hone and Dance
with their coterie, paid speedy and in
| cesSant homage, exchanging original
portraits with her and entertaining
| their fair comrade after the manner
| most approved in Bohemia. Goldsmith
| alludes TO one of these joyful banquets
in rhymes beginning:
But tits Reynolds way
From Wisdom TO stray,
| And Angelca's whim
To be froick like him.
The nobility outvied the artists in
| thelr lavish attentions to the young
SWISS who spoke all languages SO
Z nd -
! traits so delightfully."- in her character
lstic home in Golden square. Here. as
IN Italy, she worked increasingly, and
| Tor sixteen years was identified with
/ English art. When Sir Joshua Reyn-
/ olds became the first president of the
Royal academy, he used his influence
to have Miss Angel among the
/ original members. Books of the day
TEEN with statements to the effect thai
/ Miss Kaufman was dOubly. trebly
! fashionable" that officers of the guards
/ fought for bits Of lace or flowers thai
| she had worn, and that "a young
/ nopleman got melancholy mad when
/ she refused to paint his picture"
| After painting portraits of Queen
| Charlotte, Christian III. of Denmark
and many of the nobility of England
Angelica Kaufman travelled through
Great Britain and Ireland. DECORATING
many princely houses with frescoes
painting ceilings. door panels, tables
portraits and medallions; she alsD de-
signed Tgnettes and frontispieces. fans
concert and masquerade tickets. Al
this time she took up engraving and
! her plates and etchings prove that had
| she made a speciality of this branch
she would have developed exceptional
| power. Sir Joshua Reynolds invited
her TO assist in ths,-SecoratiOn of St
PaufS cathedral A certain portion OF
! the scriptural subjects chosen for this
! purpose were assigned her, but the
| bishop Of London in face of the hearty
! approval OF the king ard the arch
| bishop of Canterbury, defeated the
plan.
Some critics have attributed tc
vanity Angelica's numberless portraits
Of herself, but if so. then Nine. LIE
Brun. Rubens, Rembrandt and many OF
7 the old masters must come under tbs
same ban She probably resOrted to
! this expedient. as did they. in order tc
1 practice upon an eVer-present model
! This was especially necessary in the
( eighteenth century. when professional
! women models were unknown and
women artists were never admitted to
the life classes.
Such exceptional honors as were
l SnoWered upon Angelica Kaufman
necessarily aroused much jealousy, and
! her unfortunate marriage with the
I valet Of Count de Horn, who passed
1 himself on as his master, is thought
I by many to have been the result of a
/ plot matched by jealous artists or dis
carded lovers. Lovers she always had
! for she was fond OF attention. yet she
made two loveless marriages notwith-
standing. Although Immediately
separated from her adventurer hus-
band. she felt very keenly the blight
upon her life. and would not consider
any more eongenial marriage until his
/ death. ten years later.
At that time her father, being in fail