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That was The Ely Family by Angelica Kauffman. Now let’s listen to The Ely Family by Angelica Kauffman, recorded at the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, on 15 August 2022. This is a painting, oil on canvas, 287 cm wide by 243 cm high. The city too presented such an agreeable air that she must have felt immediately at home. The journey to Ireland in those days was almost as hazardous and uncomfortable as that from the Continent, but whatever sea-sickness Angelica endured would have been recompensed by the beauty of the approach to Dublin through its wonderful bay, only to be compared to that of Naples. 74):Īngelica had successfully surmounted her matrimonial and financial troubles she was admired, courted, and successful, and it was in this state that she accepted the invitation of Lord Townsend, the Viceroy, to pay a visit to Ireland. About that trip, I quote from Angelica Kaufmann, R.A. In 17 she spent time in Ireland, where she made this portrait. There she was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts-she and Mary Moser, another founder, were the only women members until the 1920s. Kaufmann was born in Switzerland and lived mostly in Italy before moving to England in 1766, the year she turned twenty-five, already a very successful painter.

Nineteenth-century biographers made little of her art and much of her life: a high-earning woman artist, beautiful and successful, a bigamous marriage, alleged proposals from some of the most famous men of her day, seduction by the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.… Her life … certainly did not lack interest, not least because it involved an unending stream of commissions and an astute ability to maintain a degree of independence unusual for women in the eighteenth century. Kaufmann has always seemed a romantic figure. In a 1993 Times Literary Supplement book review, Marcia Pointon wrote:

Volume eleven, number ten: The Ely Family by Angelica Kauffman.

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