Richard Cosway, English
“Oh, Hi! I’m So Glad You Stopped By. Some Joker Put Super-Glue on My Rosin Cloth and Now I’m Stuck To This Stupid Thing,” Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// Marianne Dorothy Harland sat
for a portrait, her lapdog went “scat.”
With foot pedals her harp
could play notes which are sharp;
she can reach all the strings, ‘cause she’s flat.
/// This work’s painter was, back in his day,
called a fop and most likely was gay.
“Richard Cosway’s art fails;
he adds frou-frou details.”
(Women artists were mocked the same way.)
/// Cosway wasn’t a masculine guy.
Powdered wig worn excessively high.
His whole crowd dressed the same.
“Macaroni” by name,
very bright colored garb caught the eye.
Richard married Maria and she
could paint, too, (perhaps better than he).
Marriage vows were forsaken
because lovers were taken.
Thomas Jefferson, hers— famously.