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Last Name Cozens
Given Name Alexander
alt. Names A. C. ; Alexander Cousens / Couzens ;
Marriage daughter of engraver John Pine in 1746 in London ;
Children at least 1 son
Year born 1717 in Kasan ?, Russia
Year died 1786
Place of death London, England, UK
Father's occupation shipbuilder Richard Cozens
Relatives brothers in law Simon & Robert Edge Pine
Education studied painting in London; 1746 taught oilpainting by Claude-Joseph Vernet in Rome
Country of Activity England, UK
Worked for obstetrician William Hunter: Anatomy Gravid Uterus (1774: plate 21) ; Christ's Hospital ;
Patronage
Collaborators engraver ->Francois Germain Aliamet ; "Signor Giorgio" ; pupils: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount & Elizabeth, Lady Amabel Polwarth, Fam. Grimston, George Beaumont ; William Austin, William Beckford ; Nuneham ;
Techniques anatomical painting, drawing, and etching ;
Sample(s) http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alexander-cozens-118 , http://www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI047/0022-0-0.jpg ;
Archival sources
Published sources AKL 22 1999, 106; ThB 8 1913, 32 ; Choulant 1920: 296; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 89.
other Further Place of Activity: United Kingdom (since 1727 in England), since 1740s again in Russia, and c. 1744-1746 in Italy.
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