ALEXANDER COZENS (ST PETERSBURG 1717-1786 LONDON)

Lot 55
02.07.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 55 | ALEXANDER COZENS (ST PETERSBURG 1717-1786 LONDON)
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
ALEXANDER COZENS (ST PETERSBURG 1717-1786 LONDON)
High Tor, Matlock Derbyshire
signed and dated 'ACozens. / 1756' ('AC' linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 36 ¼ in. (71.4 x 92.1 cm.)




Provenance

(Probably) Nathaniel Curzon, Lord Scarsdale (1726-1804), Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, 1789.
with Spink and Son, London, October 1960.
H.G. Balfour, and by descent to the seller at the following,
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman, a descendant of the artist]; Sotheby's, London, 9 June 1998, lot 5, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

(Probably) James Pilkington, A View of the Present State of Derbyshire with an Account of its most remarkable Antiquities, II, London, 1789, p. 124, from a list of the pictures at Kedleston Hall, as 'Matlock high tor, by Cozens'.
'Advert - Spink & Son', The Burlington Magazine, CII, October 1960, p. xxxii.
B. Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Light, I, London, 1968, p. 86 and 88, fig. 108.
M. Rosenthal, British Landscape Painting, Oxford, 1982, p. 56, fig. 46.
K. Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens: The Poetry of Landscape, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 37 and 38, pl. 42.
K. Sloan and P. Joyner, 'A Cozens album in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth', The Walpole Society, LVII, 1993-4, p. 117, under no. 37b.
S. Leach, Joseph Wright and the Final Farewell, Cambridge, 2023, p. 87.



Exhibited

London, Tate Gallery, Landscape in Britain c.1750-1850, 21 November 1973-3 February 1974, no. 83, with catalogue entry by L. Parris.
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