Artists Angelica Kaufman and Mary Moser were among the founders of the British Royal Academy of Arts and over the next century and a half remained the only women to receive a membership. Angelica Kaufman was able to achieve mastery in one of the most traditionally “masculine” art genres – historical painting – and became a recognized master of classicism.
Mary Moser, a Swiss-born artist, was one of the most famous women in the 18th century British art scene. The artist gained fame primarily thanks to the images of bouquets and floral ornaments, orders for the execution of which she received, among other things, from the British royal family.