Author: Barnett, Gerald
Title: Richard and Maria Cosway: A Biography
Description: Tiverton/ Cambridge, Westcountry Books / Lutterworth Press, 1995. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine; 288 pp.; richly illustrated; a letter from the author to former owner and other ephemera is laid in. "Richard Cosway, born in Tiverton, Devon, was once a more famous artist than Gainsborough. His portraits of the fashionable were the rage in Regency London. From 1785 he became Principal Painter to the Prince of Wales. He and his wife Maria entertained anybody who was anybody. A talented artist in her own right, she was also a composer, musician and an authority on girls' education. Thomas Jefferson fell in love with her; Napolean doted on her. And yet, save for [his] 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 portray them in a truer and clearer light, emphasising their achievements as artists and individuals and rehabilitating them as a major figures in the artistic history of eighteenth-century England." -- DJ. VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are worn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid.)/VG- (DJ is moderately edgeworn/scuffed/smudged.).

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