John Cousen
John Cousen (Bradford 1804–1880 London) was a British landscape engraver. He was articled to John Scott, the animal engraver. His larger works after Turner, Stanfield, and others are of great excellence, but his exquisite taste is best displayed in his smaller plates after Turner, especially those in the 'Rivers of France,' which are full of poetic feeling.
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John Cousen
William Henry Bartlett, John Cousen, upload by Adrian Michael · Infotafel am alten Strassenverlauf · Public domain
- Born
- John Cousen was born on 19 February 1804.
- Died
- John Cousen died on 26 December 1880. · South Norwood.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Occupation
- printmaker.
- Fields
- landscape.
- Teachers
- John Scott.
- Languages
- English.
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John Cousen (Bradford 1804–1880 London) was a British landscape engraver. He was articled to John Scott, the animal engraver. His larger works after Turner, Stanfield, and others are of great excellence, but his exquisite taste is best displayed in his smaller plates after Turner, especially those in the 'Rivers of France,' which are full of poetic feeling.
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Cousen worked extensively for The Art Journal. He died in South Norwood, south London in 1880, but had retired from the practice of his art some sixteen years before, in consequence of ill-health. His more important works are: • Mercury and Herse; after Turner. • Towing the Victory into Gibraltar; after Stanfield. • The Morning after the Wreck; after the same. After Turner, for the Turner Gallery: • Calais Pier: Fishing-Boats off Calais. • Snow-Storm: Hannibal and his Army crossing the Alps. • Peace: Burial at Sea of the Body of Sir David Wilkie. • St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. For the Vernon Gallery: • The Battle of Trafalgar; after Stanfield. • The Canal of the Giudecca and Church of the Jesuits, Venice; after the same. • The Old Pier at Littlehampton; after Sir A. Callcott. • Returning from Market; after the same. • Cattle: Early Morning on the Cumberland Hills; after T. Sidney Cooper. • The Mountain Torrent; after Sir E. Landseer. • The Cover Side; after F. Lee. • Rest in the Desert; after W. Müller. • A Woodland View; after Sir D. Wilkie. • Illustration — John Cousen: A Fire at Sea (after William Turner's unfinished painting of the same name, probably based on the foundering of the English convict ship Amphitrite)
An exhausted stag is hunted into a river by two dogs. Etching by J. Cousen after E. H. Landseer. Iconographic Collections
https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23)
A group of people are loading the corn on to horse-drawn cart at harvest-time. Engraving by J. Cousen after J. Linnell. Iconographic Collections
https: Gallery: https: Wellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-22)
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1804
John Cousen was born on 19 February 1804.
1880
John Cousen died on 26 December 1880.
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John Cousen died in South Norwood.
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John Cousen is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation printmaker. Classed in the genre landscape painting.
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Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, National Library of Wales, Ackland Art Museum and Yale Center for British Art
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