The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-04-26

Soma critics have attributed /, :,
Angelicas numberless portraits !, NJ,
but il so. then Nine LIE Brup. n,
Rembrandt and many OF the Old MI
must come under the same ban. ii, /.
ably resorted to this expejisnt 4
they, In order to practice upoa Il,
present model. This was especial, J.
sary in the Eighteenth century vhs
fessicnal women models were una
and women artists were never adnIelN
the life classes.
Such exceptional honors as were y
cred upon Angelica Kaufman peSm
aroused much Jealousy, and her d
tunate marriage with the valet 81 b
De Horn, who passed himself cr
master, is thought by many TO hss,
the result OF a plot Matched b. Id
artists or discarded lovers. Lovers L.
ways had, for she was fond Of atts:t
yet she made two loTeless marriage :
wlthstanding. Although Immediately
arated from her adventurer husbiri
felt very keenly the blight upon BIZ
and would not consider any more cord
marriage until his death, ten year, 4
At that time her father, being 10 Id
hsatth, negotiated a marriage for be- !,
Antonio Zucchi, an elderly artist Il I
right character. Her unsentimeatiI Z
ond husband looked upon this masliin(
successful commercial speculate
special province being that Of stsisH
the breadwinner Of the family
With zucchi she left London iur h
where she passed the remainder y Y
life, the idol Of literary friends AID n
patrons. She received the title Of q
painter to her majesty OF the two slAs
and refused offers OF other postsi !
couSt. At the time Of the French m
sion of Rome (179S-99) General H'ii1
gave a written order exempting hx
visitors or imposts, In return io'
courtesy Angelica presented him VIII
portrait which she had made Of ~
In this latter part OF her life n' \
joyed most delightful friendshlps 4
Herder and Goethe, the latter irapisa'
able German declaring that were hl'1
not married he would gladly make u I
wife. Angelica read and criIlsha
original MSS. of many OF his won
designed frontispieces for several 'ol1.
while Goethe in turn admired ala 4
cised the art work OF his most synp''
companion. Upon her death a. aa1'
the sixty sixth year OF her age W
buried with public procession
nobility, artists and scientists Of ~ Y
young girls carried the four corner y
pail and one hundred priests aceonp'''
the funeral train.
The pictures Of Angeles Msl'
were undoubtedly overestima'ec y
day, partly owing to the compelnls n
of her fascinating personality ana =
because she lived in the ultla'''..
days when artistic sensibllity W. NJ
lowest round 1t is TO be reslsM.
instead of panderipg to TINS VIZ
taste she did not make stana sss,s
The charge against her technie' ="
digures were anatomically vasN
faulty, is readily condoned when '.l
lie that she never had oppo''uI,a,ss
studying the living model o. NH
brother artists and that though ~. ~
conscious of these defects she VA
less to overcome them. ID spIe
imperfect workmanship, hes pIs ..,,,
womanliness, sweetness and synI.s
main undisputed, Anthony fass' n.
dict, "that connecting her beauty l,' =, (
knowledge and her sweet dlspoa'ns ..,,
both, she was, perhaps, the mO,s IN
ing woman in Europe" seems ~, p,,,,r,
with the consensus OF her cca's as N
that she was one OF the most y"
women OF the century.