Alexander Cozens
1717–1786
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Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia. 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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Alexander Cozens A Blot: Tigers
c.1770–80
Alexander Cozens The Cloud
c.1770
Alexander Cozens A River beyond a Wooded Cliff to Right
date not known
Alexander Cozens A Lake below Mountains
date not known
Alexander Cozens A Large Tree over Water
date not known
Alexander Cozens Plate 11
c.1785
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