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Maria Cosway

1760 - 1838

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Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah; née Hadfield; 11 June 1760 – 5 January 1838) was an Italian-English painter, musician, and educator. She worked in England, France, and later Italy, cultivating a large circle of friends and clients, mainly as an initiate of Swedish and French Illuminism and an enthusiastic revivalist of the Masonic Knights Templar. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, and commissioned the first portrait of Napoleon to be seen in England. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maria Cosway has received more than 234,438 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Maria Cosway is the 1,822nd most popular painter, the 3,749th most popular biography from Italy and the 264th most popular Italian Painter.

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  • 230k

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  • 46.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Maria Cosway ranks 1,822 out of 2,023. Before her are Kanō Hōgai, Francisco Toledo, Charles Dana Gibson, Betzy Akersloot-Berg, Alice Neel, and Käthe Kruse. After her are Vassily Maximov, Edwin Long, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Paul Raud, Jaroslav Čermák, and Josefine Swoboda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1760, Maria Cosway ranks 32. Before her are Olof Swartz, Charles de Bonchamps, François Buzot, Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, and Lemuel Francis Abbott. After her are Ferdinand Bauer, Ivan Dmitriev, Thomas Clarkson, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Jonathan Dayton, and John Breckinridge. Among people deceased in 1838, Maria Cosway ranks 35. Before her are Piet Retief, Osceola, Friedrich Accum, Ignaz von Rudhart, Ludwig Abeille, and Thomas Andrew Knight. After her are Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Paine Wingate, and Nathaniel Bowditch.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Maria Cosway ranks 3,749 out of 5,161. Before her are Cesare Burali-Forti (1861), Savino Guglielmetti (1911), Renzo De Vecchi (1894), Fernando De Napoli (1964), Polydore Vergil (1470), and Tina Anselmi (1927). After her are Giuseppina Leone (1934), Franco Bertinetti (1923), Gianni De Michelis (1940), Marcella Bella (1952), Ugo Pignotti (1908), and Roberto Mussi (1963).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Maria Cosway ranks 264. Before her are Fyodor Bruni (1799), Ben Vautier (1935), Andrea Benetti (1964), Paolo Salvati (1939), Francesco Clemente (1952), and Giovanni d'Alemagna (null). After her are Filippo Randazzo (1692).

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