Recommended: Bow Down (Mary Moser and Angelica Kauffman)

This episode of Jennifer Higgie’s podcast series about women in art, Bow Down, features the cultural historian, radio presenter and author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes , Shahida Bari. She discusses the life and times of the two women founders of London’s Royal Academy, the trail-blazing 18th-century artists Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser. There are many other episodes of Bow Down, although most focus on modern and contemporary artists.

Angelica_Kauffman, Self-Portrait Hesitating Between the Arts of Music and Painting, 1791, oil on canvas, The St Oswald Collection, Nostell Priory.