Related Paintings of unknow artist :. | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 270 | Arab or Arabic people and life. Orientalism oil paintings 382 | Portrait of Carolina Wilhelmina of Orange (1743-1787) and her children. | Chiriu out of the series the 53 stations of the Tokaido | Seascape, boats, ships and warships. 20 | Related Artists:
Jan Van VuchtDutch , Rotterdam 1603-1637
GHISLANDI, VittoreItalian Baroque Era Painter, 1655-1743
Richard Cosway English Rococo Era Miniaturist, 1742-1821,Painter, draughtsman, dealer and collector. Probably the son of a schoolmaster, he showed a precocious talent for drawing and studied at Shipley's Drawing School in the Strand, where he won several prizes. He attended the Richmond House academy, set up by Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, where he met Giovanni Battista Cipriani. He first exhibited at the Society of Artists in 1760, showing there again between 1767 and 1779. He also showed at the Free Society of Artists between 1761 and 1766. In 1769 he entered the Royal Academy Schools, becoming an ARA in 1770, when he began to exhibit at the Academy, and RA the following year. In 1781 Cosway married the Anglo-Florentine artist Maria Cosway, n?e Hadfield, and they moved in 1784 to Schomberg House, Pall Mall, which became a centre for fashionable London society. In 1786 he made a brief visit to Paris and in 1791 he moved to a larger house in Stratford Place, London.
