Painter from Italy who lived and worked in Italy, England and France (1760-1838)

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Maria Cosway painting in a lunatic's cell in an asylum. Coloured etching, 1786.

Richard & Maria Cosway : Regency artists of taste and fashion / Stephen Lloyd ; with essays by Roy Porter & Aileen Ribeiro.

Young women are trying on hats and looking at fans in a milliner's shop. Aquatint by C. Watson after M. Cosway.

The three holy women lament over the dead body of Christ. Coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1800, after Maria Cosway, 1799.

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Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway

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Works from the collections

Richard & Maria Cosway : Regency artists of taste and fashion / Stephen Lloyd ; with essays by Roy Porter & Aileen Ribeiro.

The three holy women lament over the dead body of Christ. Coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1800, after Maria Cosway, 1799.

Young women are trying on hats and looking at fans in a milliner's shop. Aquatint by C. Watson after M. Cosway.