228. Maria Cosway (Italian/British, 1760-1838)

clockwise from top left

1. Nightscene: A Woman and Two Children, One Apparently Dead, at Seashore, 1800, brown ink with white on paper, Tate
2. Self-Portrait, 1778, Amici degli Uffizi
3. Lord Melbourne as a Child, oil on canvas, Julian Simon Fine Art
4. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, as Diana, Goddess of the Moon, Chatsworth House
5. Giulia Manzoni Beccaria, 1802-1803, oil on board, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (photo: Internet Culturale)
6. Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, Temple Newsam House (photo: Art UK)
7. Sappho, 1826, brown ink and graphite on paper, Yale Center for British Art
8. A Persian Lady Worshipping the Rising Sun, 1784, oil on canvas, Sir John Soane's Museum
Links:

Maria Cosway on Wikipedia
Love letter to Maria Cosway from Thomas Jefferson--Manuscript Images and Transcript
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by John Trumbull--formerly owned by Maria Cosway, now hanging in The White House
Engraving of Maria Cosway owned by Thomas Jefferson--Monticello
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