Painting of the Swiss artist Angelica Kaufman “The Princess of Wales Augusta of Hanover with her son”. The size of the painting is 271 x 187 cm, canvas, oil. This double portrait commemorates the birth of the first son of a duchess. On a large outdoor festive vase you can see an inscription that glorifies the name of the princess’s husband in honor of his triumphs in battles and in love.
In 1780 Kaufman returned to Italy, where she found herself a brilliant reception everywhere, married painter Antonio Tsukki and constantly revolved around artists and scientists. Kaufman died in Rome in 1807. Kaufman’s paintings, for which the stories brought her the history, Holy Scripture and works of elegant literature, are very well written and pleasant in colors, but weak in drawing and sluggish or strained against expression. Significantly superior to their dignity are her portraits, especially women’s, to which Kaufman, with her characteristic semi-subtlety of feeling, was able to give animation and grace.
Of the paintings Kaufman the main: “The Return of Germanicus from the battle in the Teutoburg Forest,” “The Ashes of the Youth-Pallas on the Deathbed” and “The Conversation of Christ with the Samaritan Woman.” In the museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts there are three encaustic works of Kaufman: “Thetis plunges Achilles into the waters of Styx,” “Horace hugs the bust of Maecenas with flowers,” and “Messengers of Gottfried Bouillon exhort Rinaldo to leave the garden of Armida”; in the St. Petersburg Hermitage – three of her paintings depicting “Farewell to Abelard with Eloise” and two scenes from Stern’s “Sentimental Journey”.
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