The Ballroom at Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent. © National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel

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Mrs Townley, attributed to Richard Cosway (1742 -1821), about 1800. Watercolour on ivory; elaborate memorial verso in hair, pearls and sepia; cut-steel frame © Private collection

Richard Cosway’s ‘Mrs Townley’, and the question of attribution by Tamsin Foulkes

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts’s exhibition Close to the Heart (1 February – 5 May 2013) features around fifty mostly British miniatures dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Half of them are on loan from an eminent UK private collection largely assembled around 1890-1920 on the advice of George C. Williamson (1858-1942), […]

Susannah Wedgwood, mother of Charles Darwin, by Peter Paillou the younger, 1793 © The Fitzwilliam Museum

New approaches to British portraits at The Fitzwilliam Museum by Amy Marquis

Amy Marquis, Study Room Supervisor (Paintings, Drawings and Prints), The Fitzwilliam Museum, received a Bursary from Understanding British Portraits in October 2012. Here she reflects on the aims of her chosen project. The Fitzwilliam Museum‘s collection, like all collections, is constantly changing, whether this be through high profile acquisitions like our recent successful appeal to save […]

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Richard Cosway’s ‘Mrs Townley’, and the question of attribution by Tamsin Foulkes

New approaches to British portraits at The Fitzwilliam Museum by Amy Marquis

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