Maria Luisa Caterina Cecilia Cosway (ma-RYE-ah; nĂ©e Hadfield; 11 June 1760 â 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. Via W | Self-portrait, 1787

















