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John Robert Cozens

1752–1797

Fluelen on the Lake of Lucerne
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Biography

John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolour landscapes.

Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner. His poetic work included Alpine views and a sense of vastness. John Constable described Cozens as "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape."

In June 2010 Cozen's Lake Albano (c.1777) sold at auction, at Sotheby's in London, for £2.4 million, a record for any 18th-century British watercolour.

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Fluelen on the Lake of Lucerne

John Robert Cozens
date not known

Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo

John Robert Cozens
c.1783–8

Lake Nemi

John Robert Cozens
c.1783–8

Lake Nemi

John Robert Cozens
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Padua

John Robert Cozens
after 1782
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The Gulf of Salerno

John Robert Cozens
c.1790

The Lake of Geneva (?)

John Robert Cozens
?1776
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View from Isola Borromea, Lago Maggiore

John Robert Cozens
c.1783
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