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1776 In Art
Events from the year 1776 in art. Events * John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy. Works * Pompeo Batoni – ''General William Gordon of Fyvie'' * Nathaniel Dance-Holland – '' The Dashwoods at West Wycombe Park'' * Jean-Honoré Fragonard – ''A Young Girl Reading'' ''(approximate date)'' * Thomas Gainsborough – '' Portrait of Johann Christian Bach'' * Tilly Kettle – ''The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband'' * Anton Raphael Mengs â€Self-portrait* Sir Joshua Reynolds – '' Huang Ya Dong ('Wang-Y-Tong')'' Births * February 16 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (died 1843) * March 30 – Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, Russian painter (died 1857) * April 2 – John Higton, English animal painter (died 1827) * April 13 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (died 1811) * June 11 – John Constable, English romantic la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robert Cozens
John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) 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." 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. Biography 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 Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
