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Cosway, Maria Louisa Catherine Cecilia, Baroness Cosway in the nobility of the Austrian empire (1760–1838), history painter and educationist 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua (1723–1792), portrait and history painter and art theorist 1
Wright, Joseph, of Derby (1734–1797), painter 1

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2016 - Long Gallery 408 (Yale Center for British Art, 2016-03-29 - ) 2
Artists' Portraits (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-02-06 - 2002-03-24) 1
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2005-02-12 - 2005-05-01) 1
Joshua Reynolds : the Creation of Celebrity (Tate Britain, 2005-05-21 - 2005-09-18) 1
Off the Map: Provenance of a Painting (Nasher Museum of Art, 2021-09-18 - 2022-01-09) 1
Two Extraordinary Women : The Lives and Art of Maria Cosway (1760-1838) and Mary Darby Robinson (1757-1800) (The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, 2016-01-29 - 2016-05-01) 1

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Credit Line: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723–1792

Self-Portrait

ca. 1750
Joseph Wright of Derby, 1734–1797

Self-Portrait

ca. 1780
Accessible in the Study Room
Print made by Valentine Green, 1739–1813

Mrs. Cosway

1787

1080 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut

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