Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… Consequently, they took a keen interest in Vigée Le Brun as one of the very few women to 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 Academy. Kauffmann’s skill as a portraitist was highly prized in British high society. Vigée Le Brun took great pleasure … many visitors who invaded her apartments each morning to view the self-portrait she intended to submit to the Florence Academy, as they were instrumental in establishing her notoriety in Italy. 5 . Geneviève Haroche-Bouzinac, L. E. Vigée Le …
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