Cousin, René

Address unknown; carver and gilder (fl.1675-94)

In England by 1675.

Antonio Verrio's chief gilder at Burghley, Stamford, Lincolnshire, and Windsor. Also worked at Petworth House, Sussex. The 1^st Duke of Montagu paid Cousin, acting as executor of Mr Baptiste Monnoyer, £7 10s for three frames in 1699, a further £8 for two frames in 1700 and a further £25 for pictures and frames.

Sources: DEFM; Murdoch, ‘Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, A Huguenot Family of Carvers and Gilders in England 1682-1726’, Burlington Magazine (November 1997).