High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, a published teacher of painting, and father of John Robert Cozens. Alexander Cozens is said to be a natural son of Peter the Great and an Englishwoman — Mary Davenport — from Deptford. The legend says the czar took her to Russia, where Cozens was born (b. St. Petersburg, 1717), and had another son by her, who became a general in the Russian army. In fact, Alexander Cozens was son of Richard Cozens (1674-1735), who worked for Peter the Great as a shipbuilder. Alexander Cozens was sent to study painting in Italy, from where he travelled to England in 1746 or shortly after. In 1760 he was among the contributors to the first public exhibition in London of works by living artists, which was held in the great room of the Society of Arts.

Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.