Angelica Facius

She was influenced by the intellectual circles around Goethe and initially studied art with Christian Daniel Rauch in Berlin.

[2] After five years of study with her father, while attending the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School, she received further instruction from Peter Kaufmann, the Court Sculptor.

Her unusual talents brought her the support of many in the artistic community, including the famous medalist, Gottfried Bernhard Loos [de], as well as Goethe himself.

She also created nineteen filigreed cameos of notable Weimar personalities, which are now preserved in Dresden at the Green Vault.

[3] Many of her works were considered to be lost, but several cameos and candelabra figures have been discovered over the last century, as well as a bust of Zelter's daughter and a small statue of Anna Pavlovna.