… of others. In October 1789, she emigrated to Italy, then over the next twenty years, criss-crossed the continent from Rome to Saint Petersburg, ending with a sojourn in England. Between 1835 and 1837, she published her Souvenirs , weaving … have been honoured by the Royal Academy of Painting in Paris. Towards the end of 1789, on Vigée Le Brun’s first stay in Rome, she met frequently with Angelica Kauffmann, a Swiss painter and one of the founding members of London’s Royal … herself seated beside the artist at official receptions. Although she socialised with other French émigrés while in Rome, she mainly rubbed shoulders with Grand Tourists , painting portraits of Anne Pitt, Lord Camelfort’s daughter, …