Lost works
Edited by Bettina Baumgärtel
The AKRP-Team is looking for lost works by Angelica Kauffman.
To create a complete catalogue raisonné, we are looking for paintings, drawings and prints, as well as for copies after Kauffman’s works or arts and crafts, porcelain, furniture, which has been decorated with designs by Kauffman.
We guarantee discretion in every respect. The AKRP-Team is grateful for any advice.
The AKRP is looking for information on the following works:
The AKRP is looking for the original oil painting Saint Catherine by Angelica Kauffman after which Johann K. Rick painted his copy in the mid nineteenth century (see ill.). Rick’s copy is in the holdings of the vorarlberg museum in Bregenz.
The AKRP is looking for the original oil painting Lady Elizabeth Grey imploring of Edward IV the restitution of her deceased husband’s lands, forfeited in the dispute between the houses of York and Lancester. The painting was temporarily on the art market, but its whereabouts are presently unknown. It is known to us only through the engraved copy of 1780 by W. W. Ryland (see ill.).
The AKRP is looking for the original oil painting Aristides signs his banishment. The work has survived only through an print.
The AKRP is moreover looking for portraits of the following persons. In these cases we know only from written sources that Angelica Kauffman portrayed them:
- Louise von Diede zum Fürstenstein, Baroness of the Empire, neé Duchess Callenberg, (1753–1803) as the muse of music, painted in 1783.
- The writer Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803 Hamburg), presumably executed around 1770.
- Half-length portrait of Paul François-Jean-Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (1755-1829).
- Portrait of the lawyer Costanzi from 1797.
Citation note:
Baumgärtel, Bettina: Angelica Kauffman – Lost Works in: Angelika Kauffmann Research Project – online, https://www.angelika-kauffmann.de/en/lost-works/ [add date of access here]