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 456 Painting in Germany. to his facile pencil. Angelica Kauffman (1742 — 1807), whose romantic life is well-known, already alluded to as a sculptor, many of whose paintings are in England, — a portrait of the Duchess of Brunswick is at Hampton Court ; and Daniel Nicolaus Chodowiecky (1726 — 1801), famous for his miniature painting and his etchings. On the borderland between these masters and the revival of German art by Overbeck, stands Asmus Jacob Carstehs (1754 — 1798), who first practised portrait-painting as a means of gaining a livelihood, but afterwards became suc- cessful in historic painting. He worked at various times at Copenhagen, Mantua, where he studied Giulio Romano, Lubeck, Berlin and Rome, where he formed his style on the works of Michelangelo and Raphael. His principal paintings are scenes from the history of the Argonautic expedition. Carstens's works display a profound study of the pro- ductions of Raphael and Michelangelo, and are remarkable more for their depth of thought and careful execution, than for originality, either of design or treatment.