The painted and musical works of the Italian-♚Eng𓃲lish artist Maria Cosway are now being .
Cosway was born Maria Hadfield in 1760 in Florence and would go on to work successfully as a painter in England. This show recognises her talents not only as a painter and composer but also acknowledges her as a truly European figure; she befriended Thomas Jefferson whilst they were both living in France in 1786 and, in 1797, she commissioned the first portrait of Napol💃eon Bonaparte to arrive on British shores. Ever concerned with the education of women, Cosway founded a girl’s school in Paris and later opened a convent and school in Lodi, fittingly the present exhibition’s home.
She is also remembered as the wife of the society miniaturist Richard Cosway RA. In 2011, Sotheby’s London sold 168♈开奖官方开奖网站查询:this sensitive d♏rawing of Maria by her husband for £15,000.
