Alexander Cozens
1717–1786
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In Tate Britain
Biography
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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Alexander Cozens The Cloud
c.1770 -
Alexander Cozens A Blot: Landscape Composition
c.1770–80 -
Alexander Cozens A Blot: Tigers
c.1770–80 -
Alexander Cozens Plate 4
c.1785 -
Alexander Cozens and a pupil A Blot, Based on New Method, Plate 10. Verso: A Clumsier Blot
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Alexander Cozens Plate 13
c.1785 -
Alexander Cozens Study of Sky No. 1
date not known
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