DURING the past decade exhibitions and publications alike have focused on the international character of art in Rome during the latter part of the eighteenth century. As a result we have gained a much more comprehensive and precise understanding of the role of such major figures as Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Anton Raphael Mengs and Gavin Hamilton during the 1760's as well as of David's uncompromisingly austere Neoclassicism of the 1780's. While these international trends are now much clearer, many personal and artistic relationships remain to be disentangled. Such unravelling will not only help to define the role of the individual artist, his personal artistic formation and contri-bution to the new style, but will also make it possible to assess the innovative and characteristic elements of the Neo-classical movement as a whole. One such relationship, which has remained rather obscure, is that between the English painter, archaeologist and dealer Gavin Hamilton and the young Swiss-Austrian painter Angelica Kauffmann during the 1760's. My re-evaluation of their artistic connections will emphasize the influence which paintings of Gavin Hamilton exercised upon Angelica Kauffmann, specifically with the image of Hebe and its transformations.