John Cousen

John Cousen

John Cousen, a landscape engraver, was born at Bradford in Yorkshire in 1804, and was articled to , 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. He died at South Norwood 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:

After Turner, for the Turner Gallery:

For the Vernon Gallery:

References

This article incorporates text from the article "COUSEN, John" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1889 publication now in the public domain.

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