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The body of the child was embalmed and preserved in a marble sarcophagus which stood in the drawing-room in Stratford Place. It was not until the return of Mrs. Cosway to England that the interment took place in Bunhill Row Burial Ground. Of Cosway and his wife, it is stated by the biographer of Mrs.
Cosway advanced as reckless as ever, and offered his arm. "Now then, Fatsides," he said, "come and be married!" In five-and-twenty minutes more, Mrs. Pounce had become Mrs. Cosway; and the two officers were on their way to the ship. The Second Epoch in Mr. Cosway's Life. Four years elapsed before the Albicore returned to the port from which she had sailed.
The demand for specimens of Mr. Cosway's ingenious taste became at last almost in excess of his powers of supply. First, by his snuff-box subjects, and afterwards by his portraits on ivory or in red and black chalk after the manner Bartolozzi had introduced Cosway earned large sums.
"The Prince and Perdita have been in and out of that door, sir," he had often told me; "Marianne Clarke has entered it with the Duke of . It conducts to the famous petits appartements of Lord Steyne one, sir, fitted up all in ivory and white satin, another in ebony and black velvet; there is a little banqueting-room taken from Sallust's house at Pompeii, and painted by Cosway a little private kitchen, in which every saucepan was silver and all the spits were gold.
In the spacious saloons of Schomberg House, Cosway thought he should find ample room and verge enough both for himself and his fashionable friends. This epitaph may be read in Mr. Samuel Lucas's Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History, p. 293. And room was becoming very necessary; for Mrs. Cosway's receptions were now the town rage were crowded to inconvenience.
Four years after Pitt's death, Cosway, at the dinner of the Royal Academy, professed to have been that morning visited by the deceased minister, who declared himself prodigiously hurt, that during his sojourn upon earth he had not given greater encouragement to the artist's talents. Another Academician, however, rather outdid this story. 'How can you talk such trash, Cosway? he asked.
Cosway erected, on the north wall, under the gallery of the church, a monument by Westmacott, to her husband's memory. The following indifferent epitaph by the painter's brother-in-law, 'Syntax' Coombe, was inscribed upon the marble: 'Art weeps, Taste mourns, and Genius drops the tear O'er him so long they loved who slumbers here.
Maria Cosway had a delicious voice in singing, which, in addition to her other talent, her beauty, and grace, made her unusually popular in society, and her house was a centre for all who had any pretensions to a place in the best circles. Poets, authors, orators, lords, ladies, diplomats, as well as the Prince of Wales, were to be seen in her drawing-rooms.
They refused to believe in the doctor and the declining health; they had their own suspicion of the motives which had led to the sale of the inn, under very unfavorable circumstances; and they decided on going to London, inspired by the same base hope of making discoveries which might be turned into a means of extorting money." "She escaped them, of course," said Cosway. "How?"
To this last-mentioned method of biographical treatment has been subjected Richard Cosway, painter and Royal Academician of the last century: a man of fame in his day, though that fame may not have come down to us in a very good state of preservation.
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