Monday, November 2, 2015

Cosway I

Richard Cosway
Mrs. Lowther
c. 1780
Victoria & Albert Museum

Richard Cosway (1742-1821) was prominent in England painting portrait miniatures during the years when Jane Austen was busy writing courtship novels. Several pf his pieces are preserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Encountering Cosway's work propelled me into another episode of miniature immersion. These are the first fruits of that unregulated passion.

François Guyol
Portrait of Father & Daughter
c. 1805
Metropolitan Museum

Richard Cosway
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1808
Victoria & Albert Museum

Thomas Forster
Portrait of a woman
c. 1700
Metropolitan Museum

Rosalba Carriera
Portrait of a man in armor
c. 1710
Metropolitan Museum

George Engleheart
Portrait of Selina Innes
late 18th century
Victoria & Albert Museum

George Engleheart
Portrait of William Innes
late 18th century
Victoria & Albert Museum

Samuel Shelley
Annabella & Mary Craufurd
1782
Victoria & Albert Museum 

Hans Holbein
Portrait of William Roper
1535-36
Metropolitan Museum

Hans Holbein
Portrait of Margaret Roper
1535-36
Metropolitan Museum

John Singleton Copley
Self-portrait
1769
Metropolitan Museum

George Engleheart
Portrait of a woman
c. 1785-90
Victoria & Albert Museum

Nicholas Hilliard
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
1588
Metropolitan Museum

French painter
Portrait of a man in armor
18th century
Prado

Sophie Liénard
Portrait of a woman
c. 1835
Prado