John Robert Cozens
ARTISTJohn Robert Cozens was an English painter of romantic watercolour landscapes, nearly all of Continental scenes. His career was brief and his production relatively low, but he had an enormous influence on later English watercolourists. Cozens painted striking watercolours which influenced Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner, who together made copies of many of them when young, paid by Dr Monro, and has been described as "perhaps the most poetic of English painters". Despite using a "very limited palette, usually blues, greys, and greens, [and] the simplest of compositions ... there is a grandeur and simplicity about his best work which appeals directly to the heart". John Constable described Cozens as "all poetry", and "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape."
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John Robert Cozens, wall art & digital downloads
2 works by John Robert Cozens (British, 1752–1797) are catalogued on Archive Lane, free to preview and available to download or order as a print.
John Robert Cozens was an English painter of romantic watercolour landscapes, nearly all of Continental scenes. His career was brief and his production relatively low, but he had an enormous influence on later English watercolourists. Cozens painted striking watercolours which influenced Thomas Girtin and J. M. W. Turner, who together made copies of many of them when young, paid by Dr Monro, and has been described as "perhaps the most poetic of English painters". Despite using a "very limited palette, usually blues, greys, and greens, [and] the simplest of compositions ... there is a grandeur and simplicity about his best work which appeals directly to the heart". John Constable described Cozens as "all poetry", and "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape."
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of John Robert Cozens's work on the site falls under Landscape (25), Drawings (8), Prints (6).
By movement, it's catalogued as Neoclassicism (41).
Culture: English (41).
By orientation: 39 landscape, 2 portrait.
Other British artists of the period
If you like this artist, these contemporaries are catalogued too:
- George Cruikshank — 381 artworks
- James Gillray — 378 artworks
- Thomas Girtin — 152 artworks
- John Buckler — 122 artworks
- Cornelius Varley — 106 artworks
- Francis Wheatley — 95 artworks
- William Alexander — 88 artworks
- John Downman — 78 artworks
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