Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand

Samuel Cousins was a well known mezzotint engraver of portraits and decorative subjects after his contemporaries and 18th-century British artists. Born in Exeter, he was the pupil of, and assistant to, the engraver S. W. Reynolds. Cousins set up his own business in London in 1825 and would later become the first engraver to be elected a Royal Academician. He engraved plates after the foremost artists of his day including Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873). His younger brother Henry Cousins (c.1809-1864) was also a mezzotint engraver.

People

Coleridge, Sir John Taylor

Places

Subjects

book (as subject), reading (as Subject), male portrait, legal costume, wig, judge, Privy Counsellor, armchair

Materials & Techniques

mezzotint

Artist

Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793 - 1872)
Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887)

Title

Sir John Taylor Coleridge (1790-1876) judge

Date

Medium

Mezzotint

Acquisition

Purchased from Mrs Dorothy Lane, February 1958

GAC number

4512