_Cozens the Painter_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.).--I would refer your
correspondent, for the few particulars known of him, to Edwards's
_Anecdotes of Painting_, 1808 (in continuation of Horace Walpole's
_Anecdotes_), p. 120.
Cozens's chief patrons were Wm. Beckford, Esq., of Fonthill; G. Baker,
of St. Paul's Churchyard; John Hawkins, Esq., of Bognor; and the Earl of
Harewood (of his time). If your correspondent wishes to see some few
fine specimens of his works, Mr. George Smith, of Hamilton Terrace, and
Charles Sackwille Bale, Esq., of Cambridge Terrace, possess some very
fine ones. Mr. J. Heywood Hawkins has at Bognor his father's collection.
Cozens's fine drawings are very uncommon, and he is now little known,
though one of the fathers of the Water-Colour School, and of the highest
ability. I am not aware of any published portrait of him: your
correspondent's portrait of him by Pine is therefore interesting. Pine
was Cozens's mother's brother.