On this day in 1797, Thomas Jefferson wrote to his friend Angelica Schuyler Church, the sister-in-law of Alexander Hamilton, inquiring about their mutual friend, Maria Cosway, a woman who had once ...

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.” ...

For instance, Jefferson’s flirtation with Maria Cosway is fully developed, while his long relationship with Sally Hemings is barely mentioned — largely, one must assume, because there are no ...

Jefferson found the artist/musician Maria Cosway mesmerizing when he met her in Paris, but he still thought French women dangerously liberated. Without pounding the PC tom-toms, Kukla presents ...

At a time when most women barely left their parents house, the British/Italian artist Maria Hadfield Cosway (1759-1838) traveled the world, dined with royalty, inspired her fellow artists, and seduced ...

Can the team prove that a portrait attributed to pioneering female artist Maria Cosway is actually an undiscovered work of the great Regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence? Show more In this episode ...