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Description: | This is one of several family portraits bequeathed to the borough of St Edmundsbury by the last surviving member of the Cullum family, George Gery Milner-Gibson Cullum, on his death in 1921. In the same collection is a portrait of the sitter's son, Sir John Cullum, also by Kauffman. The celebrated Swiss-born artist Angelica Kauffman travelled to London in 1766, having spent several years working in Italy. In England she soon established a reputation as one of the finest portrait painters of the day, becoming a friend and contemporary of Joshua Reynolds and, in 1768, one of only two women among the founder members of the Royal Academy. In 1782, after 16 years in England, she moved permanently to Rome. | Subjects: | portrait (Cullum Susanna) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Kauffmann, Angelica (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1741-1807) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8617... | Go to resource |
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