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The Face of Britain: The Nation Through Its Portraits by Simon Schama review – comforting myths of British national character

Edit The Guardian 18 Nov 2015
One of the country’s best-known historians holds a mirror up to society – but falls back on cliche ... Schama is, in many ways, the ideal person to undertake a project such as this ... Instead, our attention is drawn away from the beautifully reproduced images – from Richard Cosway’s eerie 18th-century miniature of the Prince of Wales’s eye to Lewis Carroll’s photographs of Alice Liddell – and towards great wodges of backstory ... ....

12 Women Artists Who Revolutionized Print-Making

Edit Huffington Post 27 Oct 2015
Two women lock eyes and smile plainly. They’re embracing, showing their kinship openly and emotionally ... Unlike most women able to pursue the craft of designing prints, she wasn’t an aristocrat ... Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia Cosway. Maria Cosway was not only a painter and printmaker but also a composer of music. Here, she reproduced a design by her husband, Richard Cosway, to illustrate the cover of her Songs and Duets ...  ....

Land of the Midnight Sun review – Alexander Armstrong snorkels in near-freezing water so you don’t have to

Edit The Guardian 21 Oct 2015
@IAmTimDowling. In the second instalment of Land of the Midnight Sun (ITV), Alexander Armstrong continued his journey through the frozen north ... That’s right ... Richard Cosway was the go-to guy for miniatures, and the Prince of Wales was his best customer. In his relentless pursuit of the twice-widowed Maria Fitzherbert, Prince George commissioned a lot of miniatures, and Cosway finally hit on the most effective wooing device ... ....

Why the best art books make the most of both words and pictures

Edit London Evening Standard 18 Dec 2014
Books on art tend to be overwhelmed by words; too prolix, they become unreadable ... Any first-year student in my day could have made a better fist of it ... (Metropolitan, £35) ... It even deals with “the connoisseurship of libertinism”, in which bawdy and sexual swaggering play their part, connoisseurship (Virtu) and “fucking” paired, and we are reminded of The Lecture on Venus’s Arse, Richard Cosway’s painting of Townley and friends ... Tags ... ....

QI Valentine's special: from love hearts to testicle mittens

Edit The Daily Telegraph 14 Feb 2014
Related Articles. QI. Some quite interesting facts about robots 30 Jul 2012. QI. Quite interesting facts about ears 10 Nov 2011. QI. Quite interesting facts about hearts 13 Oct 2011. QI. Some quietly intriguing facts about dolphins 16 Oct 2013. QI. Quite interesting facts about warrior women 27 Nov 2013. QI ... Danger ... Eyes ... One such was painted for the Prince of Wales, later King George IV, in 1786 by the English artist Richard Cosway ... Mittens ... Claws....

The Cleveland Museum of Art to present ‘Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures’

Edit The Examiner 05 Nov 2013
Disembodied. Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives will be open to the public on November 10, 2013through February 16, 2014 ... The Cleveland Museum of Art’s exhibit “Disembodied ... In addition, Greene sponsored the acquisition of several important miniatures during the early 1950s, most notably John Smart’s Self-portrait (1802) and Richard Cosway’s Portrait of Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, later King of the French ... MIX ... ....
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