John robert cozens biography

&#;COZENS, JOHN ROBERT (–), landscape-painter in water-colour, was the son of Alexander Cozens [q. v.] He was also probably his father's pupil, and he began to draw early, as Leslie mentions ‘a very small pen-drawing of three figures on which is written “Done by J. Cozens, , when nine years old.”’ Little is known about his life. He began to exhibit in at the Incorporated Society of British Artists, in Spring Gardens, and went to Switzerland in with Mr. R. P. Knight, where he made a number (fifty-four) of water-colour drawings, afterwards in the Townley collection, and now in the possession of the Hon. R. Allanson-Winn. In this year he sent from Italy his solitary contribution to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, called ‘A Landscape, with Hannibal, in his March over the Alps, showing his army the fertile plains of Italy,’ a picture said to have been in oil colours, and so fine that Turner spoke of it as a work from which