Joseph Johann Kauffmann

The original family home was a small village in the Austrian Alps called Schwarzenberg, located in the state of Vorarlberg.

In the same period in which the church painting took place the family also travelled the nearby northern lakeside of Lake Constance doing works for the Tettnang seated Montfort counts in the form of castle depictions and similar.

The traveling Englishman and actor David Garrick gave the daughter the chance to paint a portrait of him which became one of her masterpieces, making her finally famous.

This education helped her greatly in her later career all across Europe including England and Italy up to becoming a founding member of the Royal Society of Arts.

Johann Joseph had a strong relation to Italy, evidenced not only by his time spent living and visiting there, but also in his successful recommendation to his daughter to marry the venetian painter Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795) as her second husband.