ID 1093529
Lot 201 | ALEXANDER COZENS (RUSSIA 1717-1786 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
A vale near Matlock, Derbyshire
signed and dated 'ACozens 1756.' (AC linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 36 1⁄8 in. (71 x 91.8 cm.)
Provenance
(Probably) Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Scarsdale (1726-1804), Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, 1789.
with Appleby Brothers, January 1954.
with Walker's Gallery, London, 1957.
H.G. Balfour, and by descent.
Anonymous sale [Property of a Gentleman: a descendant of the artist]; Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1998, lot 6.
Literature
(Probably) James Pilkington, A View of the Present State of Derbyshire with an Account of its most remarkable Antiquities, 1789, II, p. 124, from a list of the pictures at Kedleston Hall, as 'Vale near Matlock, by Cozens'.
A.P. Oppé, 'A Landscape in Oil by Alexander Cozens', The Burlington Magazine, XCVI, January 1954, pp. 21 and 22, fig. 21.
B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, London, 1968, I, p. 88.
K. Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens: The Poetry of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 37 and 38, pl. 43.
| Artist: | Alexander Cozens (1717 - 1786) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Alexander Cozens (1717 - 1786) |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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