Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… 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 in calling on her Swiss counterpart, whom she considered ‘one of the glories … d’Artois were not enough to sustain her in her trade. It was therefore during the London routs that she ‘composed her society’, though she received no portrait commissions from the ladies she met there, such as Lady Hertford, Lady Monck, … the famous violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti, a favourite in both Paris and London. Her concerts attracted the cream of society, not least the extravagant and inconstant Prince of Wales, whose portrait she would paint in 1803. It was thanks …
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