The upcoming American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) conference will be held virtually from April 7-11, 2021. Rachel Harmeyer, Art History Ph.D. candidate, will be presenting in the Art Professions in the Eighteenth Century panel on April 9th from 4:10pm-5:10pm CST with her paper entitled “Emulating Angelica: Decorative and Amateur Art after Kauffman," which focuses on how decorative works made after Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) demonstrate the overlap between professional and amateur art, confounding assumptions about masculine and feminine occupations and public and private spheres in Georgian visual and material culture.
Additional information on the ASECS conference can be found here.
Rachel Harmeyer earned her BFA in studio art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2008) and holds an MA in Art History from the University of Houston (2013). Her master’s thesis focused on 19th century hairwork as a technology of memory.
She is especially interested in the transatlantic circulation of visual and material culture during the long 19th century between Britain and America. Her dissertation, After Angelica Kauffman, will explore the ways in which the work of Angelica Kauffman, RA (1741-1807) ‘went viral,’ in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Kauffman’s designs inspired copies made after her in a wide variety of media, from prints, decorative paintings, ceramics, embroideries, and even confectionery.