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RICHARD COSWAY (English, 1742-1821)

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RICHARD COSWAY (English, 1742-1821)
RICHARD COSWAY (English, 1742-1821)
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Charlotte, Countess of Leicester, 1789
Mixed media on paper
h. 5 w. 4 in. (in tondo)
Inscribed on verso of frame in an early 19th Century hand: 'By "Richard Cosway" a very celebrated miniature artist at the end of the last century. He was paid 50 pounds for it', and with information about the sitter, Charlotte Mainwaring-Ellerker (d.1802), Baroness de Ferrers, who became Countess of Leicester after marrying George Townshend (1753-1811), 2nd Marquess Townshend in 1777.



Another miniature of the sitter painted by Cosway was sold at Bonhams on 25 Nov 2009, lot 15.
Provenance: Estate of John F. Ball, Television and Film Production Executive, Greenwich, CT
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RICHARD COSWAY (English, 1742-1821)

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