The Reality Effect

Au bout d'une heure et demie, on frappa doucement à une petite porte qui était derrière elle.
Margaret Dicksee (1858-1903). “Miss Angel”: Angelica Kauffmann, introduced by Lady Wentworth, visits Mr. Reynolds’ studio. 1892. 112 x 86.5 cm. Christies, London; 29-03-1996, lot 116 (sold £22,000 hammer). The pocket-book calls up a pleasanter recollection by its frequent entries of “Miss Angelica.” This is the pretty and graceful Angelica Kauffman, whose pictures, feeble as they are, were thought wonderful in her own time, and procured her a place on the original roll of Academicians in 1768. Her name in the pocket-book is sometimes contracted into “Miss Angel,” and once has the suggestive addition “Fiori.” Had Reynolds been reminding himself to buy her flowers? She had come to London only the year before, under the protection of Lady Wentworth, and had appeared as an. exhibitor for the first time, in 1765 […]   Report gave Reynolds out as an admirer of the accomplished Angelica. He painted her portrait twice; and she painted his for his friend Mr. Parker of Saltram. Smith declares she was a sad coquette. “Once she professed to be enamoured of Nathaniel Dance; to the next visitor she would disclose the great secret that she was dying for Sir Joshua Reynolds.” - Charles Robert Leslie & Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Vol I.

Margaret Dicksee (1858-1903). “Miss Angel”: Angelica Kauffmann, introduced by Lady Wentworth, visits Mr. Reynolds’ studio. 1892. 112 x 86.5 cm. Christies, London; 29-03-1996, lot 116 (sold £22,000 hammer).

The pocket-book calls up a pleasanter recollection by its frequent entries of “Miss Angelica.” This is the pretty and graceful Angelica Kauffman, whose pictures, feeble as they are, were thought wonderful in her own time, and procured her a place on the original roll of Academicians in 1768. Her name in the pocket-book is sometimes contracted into “Miss Angel,” and once has the suggestive addition “Fiori.” Had Reynolds been reminding himself to buy her flowers? She had come to London only the year before, under the protection of Lady Wentworth, and had appeared as an. exhibitor for the first time, in 1765 […]
   Report gave Reynolds out as an admirer of the accomplished Angelica. He painted her portrait twice; and she painted his for his friend Mr. Parker of Saltram. Smith declares she was a sad coquette. “Once she professed to be enamoured of Nathaniel Dance; to the next visitor she would disclose the great secret that she was dying for Sir Joshua Reynolds.”

- Charles Robert Leslie & Tom Taylor. Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Vol I.

Margaret Dicksee Joshua Reynolds Angelica Kauffmann 18th Century painters Painter depicted Artists Lady Wentworth 

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