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Frederick de Horn

Frederick de Horn was the first husband of the painter Angelica Kauffman. According to contemporary sources, which may not be reliable, he was an imposter and bigamist who posed as a Swedish count.

Marriage to Angelica Kauffman
, on 22 November 1767 in front of the Rev. Baddeley. The witnesses were Annie and Richard Horne. Sources hint at a possible second ceremony at a local Catholic church, but there is no evidence for it. Such a ceremony would have been risky, as the anti-Catholic penal laws were still in force, mandating execution for Catholic priests who married Catholics and imprisonment for the newlyweds. A drawing of Kauffman by Nathaniel Dance (c. 1767), now in the British Museum, shows her with a wedding ring and her hand over her heart, indicating love. The couple lived apart, and relations between them quickly broke down. Kauffman and her father paid Horn off, and he left England for the continent; the marriage was dissolved in February 1768. ==Death==
Death
Brandt died in 1780, and Kauffman soon after married Antonio Zucchi (1726–1795). == References ==
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