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Cousins, Samuel
| Last Name: | Cousins |
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| First Name: | Samuel |
| Dates: |
*1801 (Date of Birth)
*1887 (Date of Death)
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| Biography/History: | He first came to public notice by his mezzotint engravings of the works of Sir Thomas Lawrence, notably "Lady Acland and her Children" in 1826. He was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1835, and a member of the School of Engraving in 1854, and a professor at the Royal Academy in 1855. He engraved innumerable portraits after Reynolds, Lawrence and Gainsborough, and pictures from the originals of Wilkie, Landseer and others. |
| Related Objects: |
923.1 (Print, The Princes in the Tower (Richard and Edward), 1879)
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