Description:
Print titled "Mrs. Cosway" by Richard Cosway (1742-1821), a leading English portrait painter of the Regency era, who married the Anglo-Italian artist Maria Hadfield (1760–1838) in 1781. Maria was an artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, composer, musician and authority on girls' education, She was much admired by Thomas Jefferson who wrote letters to her decrying her marriage to another man and kept an engraving made from one of Cosway's paintings of Maria at Monticello. This is a half-length portrait of young woman wearing a large turban, ruffled collar over a low-necked dress, and an oval portrait suspended around her neck; her long hair falls in ringlet along her neck. She looks straight out at the viewer while resting her chin in her left hand and seating by a table.
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