Portrait of Anne Loudoun, Lady Henderson of Fordell
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| Portrait of Anne Loudoun, Lady Henderson of Fordell |
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| Angelika Kauffmann , 1771 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 128 × 103 cm |
| Angelika Kauffmann Museum, Schwarzenberg |
The portrait of Anne Loudoun, Lady Henderson of Fordell is a portrait that the painter Angelika Kauffmann made of the English noblewoman Anne Loudon in 1771. The portrait is now in the Angelika Kauffmann Museum in Schwarzenberg (Vorarlberg) .
Classification in the complete work
Angelika Kaufmann had attracted a lot of attention in London with the portrait of David Garrick made in Italy in 1764 . Before she left Italy to settle in London, she had the portrait of this important English actor exhibited in the British capital. The informal, intimate gesture with which the actor is portrayed was taken up, among others, by Joshua Reynolds in his portrait of Frances Abington in 1771. When Angelika Kauffmann lived in London in 1766, she was a sought-after portraitist. Through the mediation of John Reynolds, among others, she portrayed Lady Henrietta Williams-Wynn , the daughter of the Duke of Beaufort .
Image content
The portrait of Anne Loudoun, Lady Henderson of Fordell is a portrait that is particularly influenced by Thomas Gainsborough . Unlike John Reynolds, Gainsborough knew how to depict the people he portrayed in harmony with the nature around them. Angelika Kauffmann takes up this in her portrait of the young high nobility. The young woman holds an open book in her left hand, while her gaze wanders into the distance, unfocused. The sun is setting in the background. The colors of the sunset are taken up in the borders of the light dress.
supporting documents
literature
- Tobias G. Natter (Ed.): Angelica Kauffmann - A Woman of Intense Talent , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1984-1