Word: cosway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholars have long known, Maria Cosway was merely being coy: far from hating Jefferson, she was a great & good friend of the U.S. minister, and eventually her request was granted. Whatever happened to the painting afterward? Until this week, it was one of the minor puzzles in the story of gallant Mr. Jefferson's famous Paris romance...
...letter was a somewhat indiscreet one for a young matron to write a middle-aged widower-especially when the widower was the eminent Thomas Jefferson, U.S. minister to the court of Louis XVI. Nonetheless, Maria Cosway, 29, wanted a portrait of Jefferson, and she was direct enough to write and ask for one. "It is," she added, "a person who hates you that requests this favor...
...Urgent Dispatches." The romance began one August day in 1786 when Painter John Trumbull introduced Jefferson to the British miniaturist Richard Cosway and his young and flirtatious wife. Jefferson was apparently struck by Maria at once, for he canceled all his engagements for the rest of the day. He even sent a messenger to the Duchesse de la Rochefoucauld d'Anville. He was sorry, he said, but he could not make it for dinner. "Urgent dispatches" were keeping him at his desk...