A painting by Angelica Kauffmann donated to the National Gallery in London

9/8/26 - Acquisition - London, The National Gallery - Despite her fame in Enlightenment Europe and among the British aristocrats who undertook the Grand Tour, Angelica Kauffmann remained absent from the walls of the National Gallery in London. A painting by the artist had indeed been bequeathed to the museum in 1835, but it was subsequently placed on long-term loan to Plymouth, where it was presumably destroyed during the Blitz in 1941. The acquisition of the modello (ill. 1) for Achilles Discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes therefore deserves to be welcomed, all the more so as it is already on display in Room 37. It is a gift from Richard and Luba Barett, collectors in Dallas specialising in Swiss art: they have also donated a portrait by Ferdinand Hodler and a landscape by…