Alexander Cozens: 80 Watercolours and Drawings

Alexander Cozens 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. The style used by Cozens before he finally settled in Britain can be seen in a collection of fifty-four early drawings, mostly Italian scenes. They show him as a highly skilled draughtsman in the style of the time, with a feeling for elegant compos...