Dallas Collectors Gift Angelica Kauffmann History Painting to London's National Gallery
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Two Dallas-based art collectors have gifted the National Gallery in London a significant 18th-century history painting by Swiss artist Angelica Kauffmann, titled "Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes" (1787-88). This marks Kauffmann's first history painting in oils to enter a UK national collection. The gift also includes two additional Swiss works: a Ferdinand Hodler portrait and an Alexandre Calame landscape.
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Kauffmann's painting, Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes, 1787-88, was given to the National Gallery alongside two other works by Swiss artists.
Two Dallas collectors have gifted London's National Gallery an 18th century Angelica Kaufmann history painting, along with two other Swiss works
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