Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway (née Hadfield) NPG D13727

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Julien Fatou, after Richard Cosway

Maria Cosway trained as an artist in Italy, where she met other English artists and collectors such as Joseph Wright of Derby and Charles Townley. In 1779 she came to England with her mother, who hoped to launch her as the next Angelica Kauffman. In 1781 she married the painter Richard Cosway. (They later became estranged.) Despite his disapproval, she kept making portraits and history paintings and exhibited at the Royal Academy. Much of her work is known through prints. In... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.