Antique Royal Vienna style plate with Angelica Kauffman [Angelika Kauffmann] painting, probably German, c.1880s-1900s. The age estimate is based on the hand- lithographic transfer technique of Kauffmann's paintings on porcelain. There were several German companies which imitated Royal Vienna, including the mark. All four plates are signed.

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann, aka Angelica Kauffman [30 October 1741 - 5 November 1807], was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was one of the two female founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

A child prodigy who was producing commissioned portraits in her early teens, Kauffman was trained by her father, the muralist Johann Joseph Kauffman (b. 1707, Schwarzenberg, Austria). During the early 1760s, she traveled through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy working as her father's assistant. This transient life provided her the rare opportunity for a woman to see and copy many classical and Renaissance masterworks and to meet leaders of the popular new movement known as Neoclassicism.

During a three-year stay in Italy, Kauffman made her reputation as a painter of portraits; she also produced history paintings. Recognition of her accomplishments is indicated by her election to Rome's Accademia di San Luca in 1765. In 1766, Kauffman moved to London, where she achieved immediate success as a portraitist. Over the next 16 years, she exhibited regularly at the prestigious Royal Academy and worked for a glittering array of aristocratic and royal patrons.

In 1781, Kauffman married the painter Antonio Zucchi, who succeeded her father as her business manager.

CONDITION

The plate is 11.1/2" across; gold stamped number, under-glaze

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