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Born 1717 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died April 23, 1786 (aged 69) • London • England
Subjects Of Study blot drawing

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Cozens, Alexander: Vale near Matlock, Derbyshire
Alexander Cozens: Imaginary Landscape of Tree with Distant Mountains
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Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
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Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
“View with the Roman Campagna,” watercolour by John Cozens, last quarter of the 18th century; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
John Robert Cozens
British artist
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Greta Bridge, watercolour by John Sell Cotman, c. 1805; in the British Museum.
John Sell Cotman
British painter
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
Sir John Gilbert
British painter
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Dance
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Flemish artist
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
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Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Hokusai
Japanese artist
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
French painter

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