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Article: An artistic alliance - Richard and Maria Cosway. (English artists)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- December 1, 1995
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Richard and Maria Cosway, both artists, were the toast of London at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Thomas Jefferson described them as "possessing good sense, good humour, honest hearts, honest manners, and eminence in a lovely art." An exhibition that examines their position in intellectual, social, and artistic circles is on view at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Entitled Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, the show includes some 250 works and remains on view until February 18, 1996.
Richard Cosway, born in 1742 near Tiverton in Devonshire, demonstrated a talent for drawing at the age of ...