This first picture represents my maternal instincts of caring, nurturing, giving and loyalty. Kauffmann painted this for an English patron in 1785. Like Cornelia, I too have 2 boys and one girl and they are my most valuable treasure. In painting Cornelia wearing a white dress, and placed in the center of the picture, balanced on either side by her children, Kauffmann presents the mother in the idealized angelic model of perfect mother.
