NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cosway, Maria Hadfield, 1759-1838 NRA: Cosway Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia (1759-1838) nee Hadfield Painter and Musician DNB: Cosway [née Hadfield], Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist LBT ID: MaCoswa1838 VIAF ID: 69199414 LOC ID: nr91044562 | B/BAP: 1760-07-17 DIED: 1838-01-05 |
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Born and raised in Italy, in 1781 she married the painter Richard Cosway, had a romantic
relationship with Thomas Jefferson in 1786, and pursued a successful career as a
painter. | |