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Author : Stephen Lloyd
Release : 1995
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Richard & Maria Cosway by : Stephen Lloyd
Download or read book Richard & Maria Cosway written by Stephen Lloyd. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Charles Williamson
Release : 1905
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Book Synopsis Richard Cosway, R.A. by : George Charles Williamson
Download or read book Richard Cosway, R.A. written by George Charles Williamson. This book was released on 1905. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Barnett
Release : 1995
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Richard and Maria Cosway by : Gerald Barnett
Download or read book Richard and Maria Cosway written by Gerald Barnett. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Cosway was once a more famous artist than Gainsborough. His portraits of the fashionable were the rage in Regency London. From 1785 he became First Painter to the Prince of Wales - the only artist ever to have been accorded such a title. He and his wife Maria entertained everybody who was anybody. Herself a talented artist in her own right, she was also a composer, musician and authority on girls' education. Thomas Jefferson fell in love with her; Napoleon doted on her. And yet, save for Richard Coswayis pre-eminence as a miniaturist, he and Maria have long been neglected by the public, their reputation tarnished by rumour and misrepresentation. Here, Gerald Barnett seeks to present them in a truer and clearer light, emphasising their achievements as artists and individuals and rehabilitating them as major figures in the artistic history of eighteenth-century England. Richard Cosway was the subject of major exhibitions at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh) and the National Portrait Gallery (London) from August 1995. Richard and Maria Cosway feature prominently as characters in the Merchant-Ivory film Jefferson in Paris.
Author : Carol Burnell
Release : 2007
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Divided Affections by : Carol Burnell
Download or read book Divided Affections written by Carol Burnell. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Hadfield Cosway was a beautiful and talented English artist, who accompanied her husband, the miniature portrait painter, Richard Cosway, to Paris, in 1786, where she was introduced to Thomas Jefferson, then American Envoy to the Court of Versailles. The future President of the United States fell in love with the young Mrs. Cosway the day they met. Their impossible love was immortalised in Jefferson's 4000-word letter, a Dialogue between the Head and the Heart, which marked the beginning of a lifelong correspondence, the record of a touching and unrequited affection. But Maria Cosway's life is not only extraordinary because of her relationship with the American ambassador. She was a celebrity artist, an exceptional musician, a Regency hostess who entertained the Prince of Wales, later an intimate of the Bonapartes, and finally a successful founder of schools. For her pioneering work in women's education, this daughter of an innkeeper was given the title of Baroness by the Austrian emperor Franz I.
Author : Thomas Jefferson
Release : 1999
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Jefferson in Love by : Thomas Jefferson
Download or read book Jefferson in Love written by Thomas Jefferson. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over 40 letters that reveal Thomas Jefferson during his role as America's new minister to France when he wrote these letters to his lover, an obscure Anglo-Italian artist, Maria Cosway, in the midst of pre-Revolutionary France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
