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== Early life ==
[[File:Kauffmann Tragedy and Comedy (detail) 01.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|Detail of ''Tragedy and Comedy'', painted in Rome in 1791 ([[National Museum, Warsaw|National Museum]] in [[Warsaw]]). Harmonious and powerful colours{{sfn|Townsend|2008|p=105}} and the soft-brushed, multi-layered style of English portraitists, Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]] and [[Thomas Gainsborough]],{{sfn|Johns|2011}} are typical for Kauffmann's paintings.]]
Kauffman was born at [[Chur]] in [[Graubünden]], Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Datei:Angelika Kauffmann Geburtshaus.jpg – Wikipedia |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angelika_Kauffmann_Geburtshaus.jpg |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=commons.wikimedia.org |date=22 July 2008 |language=de}}</ref> Her family moved to [[Morbegno]] in 1742, then [[Como]] in Lombardy in 1752 at that time under Austrian rule. In 1757, she accompanied her father to [[Schwarzenberg, Austria|Schwarzenberg]] in [[Vorarlberg]]/[[Austria]] where her father was working for the local bishop.{{sfn|AKRP: Chronology}} Her father, [[Joseph Johann Kauffmann]], was a relatively poor man but a skilled Austrian muralist and painter, who was often travelling for his work. He trained Angelica and she worked as his assistant, moving through Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. Angelica, a child prodigy, rapidly acquired four languages from her mother, Cleophea Lutz: German, Italian, French and English.{{sfn|AKRP: Biography}}
She also was a talented singer and showed talent as a musician. Angelica was forced to choose between opera and art. She quickly chose art as a Catholic priest told her that the opera was a dangerous place filled with "seedy people."{{sfn|Ratiner|2005}} By her twelfth year she had already become known as a painter, with bishops and nobles sitting for her.
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