ROSALBA CARRIERA'S SELF PORTRAIT
Author: Rosalba Carriera
Date: 1715
Place: Venice, Italy
Now presented: Uffizzi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Medium: Pastel on paper
Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. She later became known for her pastel work, a medium appealing to Rococo styles for its soft edges and flattering surfaces.
Date: 1715
Place: Venice, Italy
Now presented: Uffizzi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Medium: Pastel on paper
Rosalba Carriera was a Venetian Rococo painter. In her younger years, she specialized in portrait miniatures. She later became known for her pastel work, a medium appealing to Rococo styles for its soft edges and flattering surfaces.
SELF-PORTRAIT IN A STRAW HAT
Author: Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun
Date: after1782
Place: Venice, Italy
Now presented: Private collection in France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun is recognized as the most important female painter of the 18th century. Vigée-Le Brun painted portraits of many of the nobility of the day and as her career blossomed, she was invited to the Palace of Versailles to paint Marie Antoinette.
Date: after1782
Place: Venice, Italy
Now presented: Private collection in France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Elisabeth Vigee-Le Brun is recognized as the most important female painter of the 18th century. Vigée-Le Brun painted portraits of many of the nobility of the day and as her career blossomed, she was invited to the Palace of Versailles to paint Marie Antoinette.
SELF-PORTRAIT OF ULRICA PASCH
Author: Ulrica Pasch
Date:1770
Place: Sweden
Now presented: Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Medium: N/A
Ulrica Pasch was one of few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
Date:1770
Place: Sweden
Now presented: Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Medium: N/A
Ulrica Pasch was one of few female artists known in Scandinavia before the 19th century. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH MONOCLE
Author: Anna Dorothea Therbusch
Date:1777
Place: Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Now presented: The Berlin State Museum, Berlin, Germany
Medium: Oil on canvas
Anna Dorothea Therbusch was a portrait painter to Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great), whose newly-built palace of Sanssouci she decorated with mythological scenes. She also painted portraits of eight Prussian royals for Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great). Though Anna Dorothea never went to Russia, Russian collectors also appreciated her work.
Date:1777
Place: Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
Now presented: The Berlin State Museum, Berlin, Germany
Medium: Oil on canvas
Anna Dorothea Therbusch was a portrait painter to Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great), whose newly-built palace of Sanssouci she decorated with mythological scenes. She also painted portraits of eight Prussian royals for Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great). Though Anna Dorothea never went to Russia, Russian collectors also appreciated her work.
SELF-PORTRAIT OF MARIA COSWAY
Author: Maria Cosway
Date:1787
Place: Florence, Italy
Now presented: N/A
Medium: N/A
Maria Cosway was who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She commissioned the first portrait of Napoleon to be seen in England. Cosway was also an accomplished composer, musician, and society hostess.
Date:1787
Place: Florence, Italy
Now presented: N/A
Medium: N/A
Maria Cosway was who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She commissioned the first portrait of Napoleon to be seen in England. Cosway was also an accomplished composer, musician, and society hostess.
CORNELIA POINTING TO HER CHILDREN
AS HER TREASURES
Author: Angelica Kauffmann
Date:1785
Place: Chur, SwitzerlandNow presented: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kauffman's strength was her work in history painting, the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during the 18th century. She was also well known by the numerous engravings from her designs by Schiavonetti, Francesco Bartolozzi and others
Date:1785
Place: Chur, SwitzerlandNow presented: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Medium: Oil on canvas
Kauffman's strength was her work in history painting, the most elite and lucrative category in academic painting during the 18th century. She was also well known by the numerous engravings from her designs by Schiavonetti, Francesco Bartolozzi and others
Cover photo: Windsor Castle, Windsor, England