SMALLWONDER

From: The Independent - London | Date: May 27, 1995 | Copyright information

Richard Cosway is now almost forgotten, but in the late 18th century, according to Sotheby's miniatures expert Haydon Williams, "he was like Andy Warhol". Born in 1741, the son of a Devon schoolmaster, Cosway began his career as a jobbing society painter, but by the age of 30 had cornered the immensely lucrative market in the portrait miniature. He became one of the most envied and admired figures in Regency London, a sumptuously dressed dandy and "something of a social lion". William Hazlitt...

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