30 minutes on Angelica Kauffman: Lunchtime reset with Franny Moyle

Event information

• Type: Talks & conversations: Talk
• Date: Monday, 21 September 2026
• Tickets: Free
• Location: Online
• Official page: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/30-minutes-on-angelica-kauffman-lunchtime-reset-with-franny-moyle-21-09-2026

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About

Enjoy a lunchtime reset with this close look at Angelica Kauffman and celebrate our recent acquisition of 'Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes'.

Franny Moyle is the acclaimed author of ’Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun’, which reclaims the legacies of these two painters. In this session, we focus on Angelica Kauffman and her inspiring life. Discover her groundbreaking work, her influence and exceptional international success – in art and in 18th-century European society.

Celebrate this virtuoso Swiss painter, who greatly contributed to placing women on the art historical map, at this short talk. If you have a little extra time, you’re warmly invited to stay for a brief Q&A.

Find a copy of 'Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun' in the National Gallery shops and online.

Speaker

Franny Moyle is an author, art historian, lecturer, curator and former TV producer. Her biography of Hans Holbein, the critically acclaimed ‘The King’s Painter’ was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She is also the most recent biographer of Joseph Mallord William Turner, whilst her 2009 account of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, ‘Desperate Romantics’, formed the basis for a six-part television drama released in the same year. Her new book ‘Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun’ will be available to purchase before and after the talk.