Gorgeous Georgians Gallery

Mrs Cosway 6B_PAL_1789_a

Schomberg House, 80-82 Pall Mall, London. An engraving showing the view from Mr Cosway's Breakfast-Room at Schomberg House, looking towards Westminster Abbey, with Mrs Cosway seated in the foreground. Richard Cosway (1742-1821) was a leading portrait painter, his wife Maria Cosway (1760-1838) was also an accomplished artist who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. A note beneath the engraving records that the landscape was painted by William Hodges, RA, and the portrait was painted by Rd. Cosway. The whole was engraved by W. Birch, 1789. Coloured engraving from the Mayson Beeton Collection

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Gainsborough - Associate of the Prince of Wales K030528

KENWOOD HOUSE, London: The Iveagh Bequest. An Associate of the Prince of Wales, ca. 1781, by Thomas Gainsborough. A Man in the Prince of Wales's Livery'. Oil on canvas 27 x 23 1/2 in. (68.6 x 59.7 cm). 88028786

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Georgian, Painting

Haytley - Elizabeth Wandesford J920265

MARBLE HILL HOUSE, Richmond-Upon-Thames. "Miss Elizabeth Wandesford" circa 1753 by Edward HAYTLEY (fl 1740-61). Oil on Canvas. Miss Wandesford (1728-54) was the second daughter of Viscount Castlecomer of Kirtlington, Yorkshire. Pictured here beside an Egyptian obelisk

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Georgian, Painting