Alexander Cozens

1717–1786

Alexander Cozens, ‘A Blot: Tigers’ c.1770–80
A Blot: Tigers c.1770–80
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Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could be worked up from abstract blots on paper. His son was the artist John Robert Cozens.

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