biography
pronunciation:
[kuhznz]
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–1786)
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| biography:
| Watercolour painter, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia, the son of the English shipbuilder to the Tsar. After studying in Italy, he moved to England in 1746. In 1785 he published a treatise describing his method of using accidental ink-blots as the basis for landscape compositions. |
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