- Also known as
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John Sell Cotman
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primary name: Cotman, John Sell
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1782-1842
- Biography
- The watercolourist and etcher; born Norwich, later to London, exh. RA in 1800 for first time, tours of North Wales and Yorkshire, 1806 to Norwich where established school; three visits to Normandy, 'Antiquities of Normandy' 1822; much work for patron Dawson Turner and his family; sometime teacher of drawing at King's College London
For Cotman papers in the BM, see bibliography, above
- Bibliography
- M. Rajnai and M Allthorpe-Guyton and Andrew Moore publications for Norwich Castle Museum and V&A exh. 1982
C. Miller, 'Cotmania & Mr Kitson, Leeds, 1992
D. Hill, Cotman in the North, Yale, 2005
On line catalogue by D Hill of the Leeds City Art Gallery collection at https://cotmania.org/
On line catalogue by T. Wilcox and A. Moore, from the Reeve collection in BM in 'past exhibitions', 2005, on Norwich Castle website
Etchings catalogued by A.E. Popham in Print Collector's Quarterly, IX, 1922, pp. 252-273
A.Hemingway, Walpole Society XLVIII 1980/2, pp.210-44 on Cotman's architectural prints
A. Hemingway, 'The Constituents of Romantic Genius: J S Cotman's Greta Drawings', in M. Rosenthal, C Payne, S Wilcox, eds, 'Prospects for the Nation', Studies in British Art vol. 4 (YUP, 1997), pp. 183-203
Large collection of letters and correspondence concerning Cotman in James Reeve collection, including letters from Cholmeley to Cotman, in BM P&D in six bound volumes as follows:
1. Catalogues of exhibitions of the Norwich Society of Artists 1805-25 (case 167,c.5,6)
2. Biographical sketches, letters, etc. of the Cotman family (c. 167.c.7)
3. Biographical sketches, etc. of the Crome family (c. 167.c.8)
4. Biographical sketches, etc. of other Norfolk and Norwich artists who had died before 1898 (c. 167.c.9)
5. Original letters by J S Cotman to Mrs Cotman and Mr and Mrs Dawson Turner (c. 167.c.11)
