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Lot 211

Richard Cosway, R.A.
(Devon 1742-1821 London)
Portrait of Maria Cosway, three-quarter-length, leaning on a table

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6 April 2017, 10:30 BST

London, Knightsbridge

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Richard Cosway, R.A. (Devon 1742-1821 London)

Portrait of Maria Cosway, three-quarter-length, leaning on a table
pencil and watercolour on paper, oval
28.6 x 24.2cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/2in).

Footnotes

Exhibited
Edinburgh, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, 11 August- 22 October 1995, cat. no. 33
London, National Portrait Gallery, Richard and Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, 17 November 1995- 18 February 1996, cat. no. 1

Literature
S. Lloyd, Richard & Maria Cosway: Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion, exh. cat., Edinburgh, 1995, pp.46, 116, cat. no. 33, pl. 31

Maria Louisa Caterina Cecilia (1759-1838), was born in Florence to wealthy inn owners, Charles and Isabella Hadfield. She married Richard Cosway in London in 1781, and had one daughter, Louisa (1790-1796).

Stephen Lloyd suggests, in his 1995 exhibition catalogue, that this work is one of Richard Cosway's 'earliest and most direct portraits of Maria' (see: S. Lloyd, ibid, p. 116).

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