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- vinist Prisoners under Louis XIV.; Paternal
Blessing; Political Discussions; Rural Feast (1855); Dutch Fishermen (1857); From Siege of Alkmaar; The Right of the Stronger; Levée of the Marquis; Court Scene; Guard Room; Imprisoned Spies; Ostade and his Models; Persecution of Jews; Tavern Scene; Poacher; Trial of the Sword; Trial of the Brush; Anteroom, Museum, Amsterdam; In Church, Museum Fodor, ib.; Musical Tea Party in Time of Louis XV. (1854), Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Dutch Village Inn, Carlsruhe Gallery; Soldiers at the Inn, Stettin Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 97; Kramm, iii. 840; Müller, 293; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 493.
KATZENSTEIN, LOUIS, born in Cassel
in 1824. Genre and portrait painter, pupil
of Cassel Academy, and in Paris of Cogniet;
went to England to paint portraits, spent
one year in Italy, and then some time in
Portugal, where he was employed by the
king. Works: Van Dyck and Charles I.,
Municipal Gallery, Cassel; Rubens and
Brouwer; Grandfather and Grandson;
Ostade in a Tavern; The Widow; Letter-Writer;
Don Sebastian; Return from Masquerade
Ball; Girls' School; Cinderella;
Declaration of Love; Fortune-Teller; Petitioner;
Favourable Moment; Interior of
Löwenburg near Cassel.—Illustr. Zeitg.
(1862), ii. 320; Müller, 293.
KAUFFMANN, (MARIA ANNA) ANGELICA,
born
at Coire, Switzerland,
Oct. 30,
1741, died in
Rome, Nov. 5,
1807. History
and portrait
painter, daughter
and pupil of
Joseph Kauffmann,
an inferior
portrait painter, who was, at that time,
employed by the Prince-Bishop of Coire.
From 1742 until 1757 the family lived in
North Italy, at Morbegno until 1752, at
Como until 1754, where Angelica, at the
age of eleven, attracted general attention
by her portrait of the Bishop of Como, and
finally at Milan, where she copied the masterworks
of the Lombard school, and painted
portraits. After her mother's death, she
went with her father to Schwarzenberg,
Vorarlberg, his native place, and assisted
him in decorating the parish church. Soon
after completing this work, she returned to
Italy, and having visited Milan, Bologna,
and Parma, was in Florence in 1762, in
Rome in 1763-64, whence she visited Naples,
then in Bologna in 1765, and studied in Venice
Titian, Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese.
In 1776 she accompanied Lady Wentworth
to England, where she met with the most
flattering reception. An unfortunate marriage
with an impostor who had passed himself
off for a Swedish Count Horn blighted
her life, although she soon obtained a divorce.
In 1769 she was elected one of the
original members of the Royal Academy, to
whose exhibitions she annually contributed
until 1781, when she married the Venetian
painter Antonio Zucchi, and went to Venice,
and in 1782 to Rome and Naples, where she
was in great favour with the royal family.
On her return to Rome, the Emperor Joseph
II. sought her acquaintance, and gave
her commissions for his gallery. Her numerous
compositions, although weak in
drawing and often monotonous through
repetition of the same subject, especially in
her female figures, show in their warm colouring
and graceful treatment the influence
of Mengs. She painted her own portrait
several times; her bust was placed in the
Pantheon in 1808. Works: Twelve Apostles
(fresco, 1757), Church at Schwarzenberg;
Female Figure allured by Music and
Painting (1760); Death of Leonardo da
Vinci (1781); Servius Tullius as a Child
(1784, for the Czar Paul); Hermann and
Thusnelda, Funeral of Pallas (both 1786,
for Joseph II.), Vienna Museum; Virgil
reading his Æneid to Empress Octavia,
Augustus reading Verses relating to Death