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English painter (1752–1797)

John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolourlandscapes.

Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner. His poetic work included Alpine views and a sense of vastness.^{[citation needed]}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.^[1]

Biography

The son of the Russian-born drawing master and watercolouristAlexander Cozens, John Robert Cozens was born in London.

He studied under his father and began to exhibit some early drawings with the Society of Artists in 1767. In 1776 he displayed the large oil painting, A Landscape with Hannibal in His March Over the Alps,