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Angelica kauffman quotes2/2/2024 ![]() ![]() I am aware of the difficulty of accomplishing even a bad picture, but in my humble opinion, a portrait, for the constant eye of the public, ought not to be so detestable, and horrible, as the one I have just seen. I called this morning to look at a picture, said to be painted as a likeness for you, I grieve to see such a caricature, placed in the room of so celebrated a society as that of the Literary Fund, for it will be the means of handing down to posterity a vulgar, coarse representation of a very different character. Later that day, she wrote to Soane, with a wax seal bearing her name: The object of Pope’s visit was artistic-she had come to see a painting. ![]() ![]() Soane was not at home, but this was of little concern. On a Thursday morning in February 1836, sixty-eight-year-old Clara Wheatley Pope paid a visit to the residence of the architect and Royal Academician Sir John Soane at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. ![]()
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