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SAMUEL COUSINS

Samuel Cousins was an English mezzotint engraver. He was born in 1801 at Exeter and died in 1887. He engraved plates after Lawrence, Landseer, Reynolds, Millais, Leslie, Eastlake, Ward, etc. He was elected Royal Academician Engraver in 1855, and when this class was abolished he became an Academician proper. On his death he bequeathed 15,000 pounds to the Academy in trust for poor artists.
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