Who was John Sell Cotman?
Painter especially of Watercolours.
Date and Place of Birth:
16th May 1782, Norwich, England.
Family Background:
Son of a well-off merchant.
Education:
1798 sent to London to study painting and met
J.M.W. Turner and Girtin.
Chronology/Biography of John Sell Cotman:
1798: Went to London
to be an artist and was employed by Rudolph Ackermann at the Depository
of Arts in the Strand.
1800: Staying in
Wales with the well-known collector Sir George Beaumont.
1803-05: Visited
the Cholmeley Family of Brandsby Hall, Yorkshire.
1806: Settled back
in Norwich where he opened a school of drawing and design. Became
Vice President of Crome's Norwich School of Artists. Also became
drawing master to the banker and antiquarian Dawson Turner in Great
Yarmouth.
1816-1818: "Architectural
Antiquities of Norfolk".
1819: Wrote "Sepulchral
Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk".
1820: Plates for
Dawson Turners "Tour in Normandy".
1822: Plates for
Dawson Turner's "Architectural Antiquities of Normandy".
1834: Became Professor
of Drawing at Kings College, London through the offices of Lady
Palgrave, Dawson Turner's daughter.
1838: "Liber
Studiorum" (48 soft-ground etchings).
Paintings:
"Chirk Aqueduct"
1805: "Greta
Bridge" (British Museum).
Marriage:
1809 to Ann Miles.
Places of Interest:
NORFOLK:
Norwich City and Castle.
Date and Place of Death:
24th July 1842, London, England.
Age at Death:
59.
Site of Grave:
St. George’s Church, Wellington Road, St.
John’s Wood, London, England.
