Editing Angelica Kauffman (section)

== Later years in Rome ==
[[File:Angelica Kauffman. Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.8|''Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music'' (1794). oil on canvas, 147 x: 216 cm. Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire]]
In 1781, after her first husband's death (she had long been separated from him), she married [[Antonio Zucchi]] (1726–1795), a [[Venice|Venetian]] artist then resident in England.{{sfn|Dobson|1911|p=698}}{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2024}} Shortly afterwards she retired to Rome, where she befriended, among others, [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]; yet, always restive, she wanted to do more and lived for another 25 years with much of her old prestige intact.{{sfn|Dobson|1911|p=698}}{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2024}}

In 1782, Kauffman's father died, as did her husband in 1795. In 1794, she painted, ''Self-Portrait Hesitating Between Painting and Music'', in which she emphasises the difficult choice she had faced in choosing painting as her sole career, in dedication to her mother's death.{{sfn|AKRP: Biography}} She continued at intervals to contribute to the Royal Academy in London, her last exhibit being in 1797. After this she produced little, and in 1807 she died in Rome, being honoured by a splendid funeral under the direction of [[Canova]]. The entire [[Academy of St Luke]], with numerous ecclesiastics and virtuosi, followed her to her tomb in [[Sant'Andrea delle Fratte]], and, as at the burial of [[Raphael]], two of her best pictures were carried in procession.{{sfn|Dobson|1911|p=698}}{{Unreliable source?|date=February 2024}}