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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. Indeed, his work is full of poetry. There is a solemn grandeur in his Alpine views and a sense of vastness, a tender tranquility and a kind of mystery in most of his paintings, leaving parts in his pictures for the imagination of the spectator to dwell on and search into. 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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John Robert Cozens Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo
c.1783–8 -
John Robert Cozens The Gulf of Salerno
c.1790 -
John Robert Cozens The Lake of Geneva (?)
?1776 -
John Robert Cozens View from Isola Borromea, Lago Maggiore
c.1783 -
John Robert Cozens Satan Summoning his Legions
c.1776 -
John Robert Cozens A Milton Subject, Unfinished
date not known -
John Robert Cozens A Torrent between Rocks and Trees
date not known -
John Robert Cozens Study of Trees
1789
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