1782
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
View from Mirabella is a 1782 watercolor by John Robert Cozens, a Rococo painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a landscape with hills and a lake. It's interesting because it was made during a time when artists were moving away from drawing exact locations. Cozens was one of the first to try this new style, which focused on beauty rather than accuracy. You can learn more about this style by looking at the work of artist: Cozens, John Robert.
John Robert Cozens’s watercolour *View from Mirabella* was created in 1782 as part of a shift in landscape art toward atmospheric, expressive works rather than precise topographical records. The composition depicts a scenic vista from the villa of Count Algarotti on the Euganean Hills near Padua, as noted in the artist’s inscription on the original drawing in his sketchbook. Cozens’s approach contributed to the rising popularity of landscape watercolours between 1770 and 1790, influencing later painters such as Girtin, Turner, and Constable.
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John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was an English painter of romantic watercolour landscapes, nearly all of Continental scenes.
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