Maria Cosway (Composer)
Born: 11th June 1760, Florence, Italy
Died: 5th January 1838, Lodi, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway was an Italian-English artist and educationalist. She worked in England, in France, and later in Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients, mainly as an initiate of Swedish and French Illuminism, and an enthusiastic reviver of the Masonic Knights Templar.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and commissioned the first portrait of Napoleon to be seen in England. Her paintings and engravings are held by the British Museum, the British Library, and the New York Public Library. Her work was included in London exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery in 1995–96 and Tate Britain in 2006.
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