JOHN ROBERT COZENS (1752 -1797)
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JOHN ROBERT COZENS (1752 -1797) |
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In the Canton of Unterwaldenc.1776-8 pen, ink with washes of grey and watercolour 22.5 X 34.6 cm inscribed on reverse: Vale of Grindelwald from the Northwest
P.116
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This stems from Cozens’ first visit to the Continent, 1776-8. He travelled through Switzerland and Italy with his patron Richard Payne Knight (1750-1824), the connoisseur, arbiter of taste and trustee of the British Museum (he voted against acquiring the Elgin Marbles). Three other versions exist: in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, the Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London, and the Leeds City Art Gallery (Lupton Bequest). T. Girtin attempted to reconstruct Cozens’ first journey through the Swiss Alps but encountered difficulties in tracing the artist’s route in the Unterwalden district. EJ PROVENANCE: Mr Somerset Beaumont; by descent Miss Mary Welland; Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, from whom purchased by Gallery, March 1957. EXHIBITIONS: 84th Annual Watercolour Exhibition, London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, 1957, no.30. REFERENCES: C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, ‘J.R. Cozens’, Walpole Society Journal, XXIII, 1934-5, no.29 (111); D. Farr and W. Bradford, Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, 1986, p.194. no.85. copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll.
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