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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
An important double-sided portrait miniature depicting the four children of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough (1758-1844) and his wife Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, née Spencer (1761-1821): Sir John William Ponsonby, Viscount Dunc
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Richard
Cosway was most 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 (showing 500 of 3902 characters). |
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