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But Cosway, probably from pride, though it might be from an acute perception of the greater advantages to be derived from reserve in such a matter, would not permit his wife to paint professionally. A favoured few might now and then become the possessors of some slight sketches by Mrs. Cosway; occasionally she might honour a lady of rank by painting her portrait; but Mrs.
The door was suddenly unlocked. "I sent no message," said Adela, as they confronted each other on the threshold. In the silence of utter bewilderment they went together into the summer-house. At Adela's request, Cosway repeated the message that he had received, and described the woman who had delivered it. The description applied to no person known to Miss Restall. "Mrs.
Cosway, when quite a lad, says Smith, obtained the notice of Shipley, and was engaged by him to attend in the studio and carry to and fro the tea and coffee with which the housekeeper of the establishment was permitted to provide the students at a cost of threepence per head.
Cosway as a husband too fond and indulgent to permit his sweet wife to ruin her health by harassing work at her easel, a judicious minority were perhaps doing Mr. Cosway stricter justice in accounting him a very cunning practitioner indeed, in the way of making the most of Mrs. Cosway's talent.
The first clause of her will contained the testator's grateful recognition of Adela Restall's Christian act of forgiveness. Cosway Benshaw's fortune on the one merciless condition that she did not marry Edwin Cosway.
A voice out of one of the corners addressed him in a whisper: "I must beg you to excuse the darkened room. I am suffering from a severe cold. My eyes are inflamed, and my throat is so bad that I can only speak in a whisper. Sit down, sir. I have got news for you." "Not bad news, I hope, ma'am?" Cosway ventured to inquire. "The worst possible news," said the whispering voice.
S. showed me a picture of Mrs. Tickell, which she wears round her neck. The thing was misrepresented to you; it was not done after her death, but a short time before it. The sketch was taken while she slept, by a painter at Bristol. This Mrs. Sheridan got copied by Cosway, who has softened down the traces of illness in such a way that the picture conveys no gloomy idea.
He is to be humoured to the top of his bent. His passion is to be cured by indulging it. If he succeeds well and good, there is nothing more to be said. If he fails, his failure will sober him, his friends argue: render him docile and tractable, obedient to parental commands for the future. Oliver Peard. After a year under Hudson, young Cosway entered Shipley's Academy, already mentioned.
Soon she became the wife of Richard Cosway. The marriage took place at St. George's, Hanover Square; Charles Townley, of Townley Marble celebrity, giving away the bride. She possessed beauty, she was a fair Anglo-Italian with profuse golden hair talent, and money. The year of her marriage she exhibited certain highly-admired miniatures at the Royal Academy. Her fame spread.
Allan Cunningham, it may be observed, relates facts concerning Cosway's origin and youth which go far towards controverting the errand-boy episode in his life, as chronicled by Smith. Richard Cosway was born in 1740, at Tiverton, in Devonshire, a county singularly productive of famous artists, having given birth among others to Haydon, Northcote, and Reynolds.
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