Alexander Cozens

Place: St. Petersburg

Born: 1717

Death: 1786

Biography:

Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in 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 the artist John Robert Cozens. Alexander Cozens was born in St. Petersburg, Rus...