biography
| name: |
Cozens, John Robert
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pronunciation:
[kuhznz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1752–c.1797)
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| biography:
| Watercolour landscape painter, born in London, UK, the son of Alexander Cozens. In 1776 he travelled through Switzerland to Rome, painting what he saw on his way, and in 1782–3 made a second visit to Italy. Turner and Girtin copied his drawings, and John Constable pronounced that he was ‘the greatest genius that ever touched landscape’. |
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