Alexander Cozens was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Saint Petersburg, 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.
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Alexander Cozens was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Saint Petersburg, 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 John Robert Cozens, regarded as one of the greatest of English watercolourists.
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Artists
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Artist
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deceased
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Lived 1717 to 1786 · aged 69
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