Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway
1760
—
1838
painter from Italy who lived and worked in Italy, England and France (1760-1838)
Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator. She worked in England, France, and later Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients, mainly as an initiate of Swedish and French Illuminism and an enthusiastic revivalist of the Masonic Knights Templar.