<b>Angelica Kauffman</b>
(1741- 1807)
 

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA, usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two female painters among the founding members of the Royal Academy in London in 1768.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Kauffman

Composition
1778-80
Oil on canvas
126 x 148 cm
Royal Academy of Arts
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/composition

This painting representing Composition is part of a set of the four 'Elements of Art' commissioned from Kauffman by the Royal Academy to decorate the ceiling of the Royal Academy's new Council Chamber in Somerset House which opened in 1780. The Elements comprise the four fundamental stages of creating an artwork: Invention, Design, Composition and Colouring.