Richard Cosway

1742 — 1821

British artist (1742-1821)

Richard Cosway was a leading English portrait painter of the Georgian and Regency era, noted for his miniatures. He was a contemporary of John Smart, George Engleheart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. He befriended fellow Freemason and Swedenborgians William Blake and Chevalier d'Éon. His wife was the Italian-born painter Maria Cosway, a close friend of Thomas Jefferson.

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Admiral Sir George Montagu, G.C.B.

Cupid Overpowering a Satyr

Ensign Lionel Robert Tollemache (1774–1793)

Hero and Leander

Madonna and Child

Portrait of a Gentleman

Portrait of a Young Lady

Portrait of Marianne Dorothy Harland (1759–1785), Later Mrs. William Dalrymple

Rachel da/de Crasto (b. 1694 - 1723/5)

Self-portrait

Supper at Emmaus

The Deposition

Venus Adoring Cupid

Self-Portrait

Porträt des Robert Bertie, 4th Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (1756-1779)

Amelia Anne Egerton, Lady Hume (1751-1809)

Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Self-portrait in Masquerade-dress

Allegorical Scene with Juliana, Countess of Carrick (1727/8–1804) as Wisdom, directing her Younger Daughters, Lady Henrietta Butler, later Viscountess Mountgarnet (1750–1785) and Lady Margaret Butler/

John Phillippo Nighorus

Portrait of a Gentleman, his Wife and Sister, in the Character of Fortitude introducing Hope as the Companion to Distress (‘The Witts Family Group’)

Lady Almeria Carpenter (1752-1809)

Portrait of a Gentleman

General Sir William Erskine, Ist Bart (1728-1795)

William Cavendish, as a child

Eye miniature, Ann Fryer

Elizabeth, Countess of Hopetown

James Hope, third Earl of Hopetoun

Miss Franks

Portrait of a Gentleman

Portrait of a Lady

Porträt des Mr. C. Bradshaw

William and George Cavendish

Mrs. Martha Udney

Portrait of Katherine, Lady Manners, Later Lady Huntingtower

Portrait of a Lady Standing near a Lake

Portrait of a Man in Armour

A Gentleman

A Gentleman

A LADY

Admiral Michael Everitt

Alexander Mackenzie (1758–1809), 9th Lord Fraser of Inverallochy

An Army Officer

Anne Loftus (d.1659)

Charlotte Sophia, Duchess of Beaufort

Damenbildnis

Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne (1752-1818)

Helen Mackenzie (1764–1802), Wife of Alexander Mackenzie, 9th Lord Fraser of Inverallochy

John Rolle (1750–1842), Lord Rolle

Maria Catherine Giffard, Lady Throckmorton (c.1763-1821)

Mary, Countess of Northesk

Okänd dam

Okänd kvinna

Portrait of a Lady Seated at a Table Writing a Letter (possibly Maria Cosway)

Portrait of an english Lady

Portrait of an Unknown Lady

Unknown Sitter

William Shipley, Founder and First Secretary of the Society of Arts

Dr Peter Templeman (1711–1769), MD

Group of Connoisseurs

Portrait of the Artist (Self Portrait with Mahl Stick and Brush)

Rt. Hon. George Rose, M.P.

Augustus Cavendish Bradshaw

Master Carew (probably Sir Henry Carew, 1779–1830)

Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman

A Gentleman

Mrs. Thomas Staniforth

Vice Admiral Colonel James Seton, Governor of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1787–1798)

The Daughters of Lady Boynton as Children (Maria Ann Georgiana Parkhurst, d.1821, Later Mrs Blachley, and Louisa Elizabeth Parkhurst, b.c.1796, Later Mrs Baxter)

Mrs Siddons Reading in a Grotto