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Cosway Richard English Miniaturist, 1742-1821 very rare and valuable Miniatur Painting of a Lady on ivory dat. approx. 1780-1800
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Cosway Richard English Miniaturist, 1742-1821 very rare and valuable Miniatur Painting of a Lady on ivory dat. approx. 1780-1800
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Richard Cosway English Miniaturist, 1742-1821,was the leading portrait miniaturist of the Regency era. His success was lay in an ability to enhance the beauty and elegance of all of his sitters. He painted his first portrait of George IV in 1780 and was appointed Painter to the Prince of Wales in 1785. Cosway enjoyed continuous patronage from the Prince. As these miniatures were often exhibited and engraved, Cosway had considerable influence over the official image of the Prince. Cosway exhibited his first miniatures in London in 1762 and was quickly in demand in fashionable circles. He married the Anglo-Italian artist Maria Hadfield in 1781 and together they much influenced London's fashionable elite and the art world. This miniature painted on ivory displays many of the characteristics that contributed to the fame of Cosways work. His subtle technique of applying thin washes of color to let the luminosity of the ivory show through, the modelling of the human form with soft, swift strokes, and the sky blue ground are all hallmarks of his work. An eye pasture for collecting tanks and a valuable collecting tank object for connoisseurs and lovers of finest miniature paintings of the probably most famous miniature painter Cosway One finds objects of Cosway in famous museums of the world as for example in the metropolitan museum OF kind, New York town centre, Hillwood museum and Gardens, Washington D.C. National Portrait Gallery, London New Orleans museum OF kind, Louisiana Tate Gallery, London in order to call only some. In April and June 2004 in London with Bonhams well known auction house similar miniatures in the size of 7 cm for 41000 and 45000 USD were sold.
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