Lavenham Literary Festival - Diane Boucher

Diane Boucher talks about her book Out of the Shadows on Maria Cosway, the Regency-era painter and musician, at the Lavenham Literary Festival.

Diane Boucher gives a talk about Maria Cosway, the Florentine-born painter and musician who was a central figure in Regency artistic culture, based on her book Out of the Shadows. The talk covers Cosway's connections with figures such as Thomas Jefferson and the Prince of Wales, her progressive work founding schools for young women, and her elevation to baroness by the Emperor of Austria. Boucher, a Lavenham resident and former Research Director for the Commission for Looted Art in Europe, presents the session as part of the Lavenham Literary Festival.