940210 Ellis Cornelia Knight, 1793 (oil on canvas) by Kauffmann, Angelica (1741-1807); 96x80 cm; Manchester Art Gallery, UK; (add.info.: This portrait was painted in Rome, where the sitter lived because of financial difficulties after the death of her father, Admiral Sir Joseph Knight. She was a talented amateur artist and writer and is shown having just drawn a naval monument. The design rests on her Roman novel Marcus Flaminius. Knight is dressed in the fashionable Grecian style. Her cameo originally showed the goddess Minerva but the artist was asked to change it to a self-portrait. ); 穢 Manchester Art Gallery ; Swiss, out of copyright.