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John Robert Cozens - In the Tyrol

In the Tyrol

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
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John Robert Cozens

John Robert Cozens was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolour landscapes.

Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J.M.W. Turner. Indeed, his work is full of poetry. There is a solemn grandeur in his Alpine views and a sense of vastness, a tender tranquility and a kind of mystery in most of his paintings, leaving parts in his pictures for the imagination of the spectator to dwell on and search into. John Constable described Cozens as "the greatest genius that ever touched landscape."

The son of the Russian-born drawing master and watercolourist Alexander 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, Showing to His Army the Fertile Plains of Italy (now lost) at the Royal Academy in London.. This painting was the only oil that Cozens exhibited at the Academy and was the inspiration for J. M. W. Turner's famous painting of 1812.

Between 1776 and 1779 he spent some time in Switzerland and Italy, where he drew Alpine and Italian views, and in 1779 he returned to London. In 1782 he made his second visit to Italy, accompanied by the author William Beckford, spending much time at Naples. In 1783 he returned to England. In 1789 he published a set of Delineations of the General Character ... of Forest Trees. He submitted his work to the Royal Academy but it was entirely rejected, being judged as "not proper art".

At the age of 42, three years before he died, he suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to the Bethlem Royal Hospital asylum. The chief physician there was Dr. Thomas Monro who, also being a keen art collector, recognised Cozens' brilliance and bought his collection. Cozens died in London.

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Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore

Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore (1783)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
On the Lake of Nemi

On the Lake of Nemi

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
In the Gardens of the Villa Negroni at Rome

In the Gardens of the Villa Negroni at Rome

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Ravine in the Campagna

Ravine in the Campagna (1776 - 1783)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri

On the Gulf of Salerno near Vietri (1782)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
The Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo

The Lake of Albano and Castel Gandolfo

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Ariccia (Wooded Landscape And Monastery)

Ariccia (Wooded Landscape And Monastery) (1783)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Upon The Linth

Upon The Linth (1778)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
A Valley in the Unterwalden Canton, Switzerland

A Valley in the Unterwalden Canton, Switzerland (1789)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Near Chiavenna in the Grisons

Near Chiavenna in the Grisons

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno

Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno (1790)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Lake Nemi And Town Of Genzano

Lake Nemi And Town Of Genzano (1779)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
A Grotto in the Campagna

A Grotto in the Campagna (1776)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
Cedar

Cedar (1789)

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
The Bay of Naples from Capodimonte, Italy

The Bay of Naples from Capodimonte, Italy

John Robert Cozens (English, 1752-1797)
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