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Updated: June 4, 2025
It was in Berkeley Street that Cosway was first noticed by the Prince of Wales and his royal brothers, whose liberal patronage of the painter brought him into fashionable and general estimation. He was appointed painter in ordinary to the Prince; and in 1771 he was elected a Royal Academician.
At an appointed hour of the coming night, when her father would be in the smoking-room, and Mrs. Margery would be in bed, Cosway was to knock at the door in the lane once more; leaving time to make all the necessary arrangements in the interval. The one pressing necessity, under these circumstances, was to guard against the possibility of betrayal and surprise.
To the connexion of the Cosways with Flanders was ascribed their ownership of certain valuable works by Rubens, which first lit up a love of painting in the heart of young Cosway, and made him an idle schoolboy and an indefatigable artist.
"Now I won't tell you my secret," and she was off like a gale of wind. Éloise shook her head and wondered. In the atelier Hubert painted. Elaine sat on a dais, her hands folded in her lap; about her head twisted nun's-veiling gave her the old-fashioned quality of a Cosway miniature the very effect he had sought.
"After all, my dear," she remarked, "you needn't be ashamed of having spoken first. You have only used the ancient privilege of the sex. This is Leap Year." THE guests would have enjoyed their visit to Sir Peter's country house but for Mr. Cosway. And to make matters worse, it was not Mr. Cosway but the guests who were to blame. They repeated the old story of Adam and Eve, on a larger scale.
I have paid away every cent except these two dollars; take this bill and let me come in to-morrow and pay the balance. "'Good man be damned! he said. 'I don't want yer two dollars. I'll take this and call it square. Then he put my precious Cosway in his pocket and without another word walked out of the room." "But wouldn't they give it back to you when you went for it?" I blurted out.
My hand had hardly touched the panel when his cheery voice rang out: "Whoever you are, come in!" He had sprung from his chair now and had advanced to greet me. "Oh, is it you! So glad come over here before you get your coat off. Look!" "The Cosway! You paid the bill and redeemed it?" "Didn't cost me a cent." "They sent it to you, then, and apologized?" "Nothing of the kind.
"Take a glass of champagne, my darling," said Cosway; "and let me try if I can get my arm round your waist. That's all I want with you." The landlady passed this over without notice. Though she had spoken to both of them, her cunning little eyes rested on Stone from the moment when she appeared in the room.
he recommends the painter to find some more honest calling, and bids Mrs. Cosway mend shirts and stockings, and mind her kitchen, rather than expose her daubs to the public. Then, as though repenting of his rudeness, he proceeds: 'Muse, in this criticism I fear Thou really hast been too severe: Cosway paints miniatures with decent spirit, And Mrs. Cosway boasts some trifling merit.
But it can be scarcely said to be substantiated by the further facts he proceeds to narrate: how that young Cosway in the course of a few years obtained no less than five premiums, some of five and one of ten guineas, from the Society of Arts: the first awarded when he was only fourteen years old, the last when he was under four-and twenty.
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