Round 10: Tossup 20

In a painting by this artist, two wings sprout out of a woman’s hair as she sits resting her arm on a blue orb. This artist painted a woman with a drawing-compass by a chess set and another woman sketching the Belvedere Torso in two of four oval ceiling paintings created for the Somerset House allegorizing different “Elements of Art.” This artist, who exchanged portraits with (*) Joshua Reynolds, is depicted as a portrait hanging next to Mary Moser’s in a group portrait by Johann Zoffany. In a moralizing painting by this artist, a woman in red flaunting jewelry is contrasted with the title (10[1])modestly-dressed mother, who gestures to her sons, Tiberius and Gaius. For 10 points, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures is by what co-founder of the Royal Academy, a Swiss-born woman artist? ■END■

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