Word: cosway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Romance at 43. The closest Jefferson ever came to behaving with youthful indiscretion was at the age of 43, in his affair with Maria Cosway. At 22 this vivid, lovely, talented girl had married Richard Cosway, 39, a friend of the Prince of Wales and the most fashionable miniature painter in London. Maria was herself a painter of distinction, and apparently a virtuous woman, though gossips credited her with love affairs with the Prince of Wales, a singer, a painter, and the secretary of the Neapolitan ambassador...