John Sell Cotman

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John Sell Cotman (* 16th May 1782 in Norwich , † 24. July 1842 in London ) was an English painter of romanticism .

Life

Cotman's grave

Cotman was born in 1782 in Norwich in the English county of Norfolk, the son of a cloth merchant. At a young age he studied in the open studio of the watercolor painter Thomas Girtin . In 1800 the first exhibition took place at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Numerous trips took him through the landscapes of Great Britain, which from then on became his main subject. Cotman earned his living as a drawing teacher, first in Norwich and later at King's College London. He married Ann Miles in 1809, with whom he had four sons and a daughter. From 1817 to 1820 he made three trips to Normandy, which had a strong impact on him. His sketchbooks from these trips were published in 1822. In 1825 he became a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colors, later the Royal Watercolor Society , and in 1834 professor of painting at King's College.

His talent for line led him to work as a graphic artist, which inevitably also had an impact on his landscape paintings, which are reminiscent of Japanese woodcut work in their two-dimensional juxtaposition of non-light and dark color surfaces and anticipate modern painting of the 20th century.

  • The Greta Bridge (around 1806)

  • The Chirk Aqueduct

  • Masted brig (around 1823)

  • River landscape with a herd of cattle

literature

  • David Hill: Cotman in the North. Watercolors of Durham and Yorkshire . Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0300107048 .
  • Adele M. Holcomb: John Sell Cotman . British Museum Publications, 1978, ISBN 0-7141-8004-1 .
  • Anne Lyles, Robin Hamlyn: British Watercolors from the Oppé Collection . Tate Gallery Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-85437-240-8 .
  • Andrew Moore et al .: John Sell Cotman. Master of Watercolor . Norfolk Museums Service, 2005, ISBN 0-90310-178-5 .
  • Andrew Wilton, Anne Lyles: The Great Age of British Watercolors, 1750-1880 . Prestel, 1993, ISBN 3-7913-1254-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cotman, John Sell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter and printmaker
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Norwich
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1842
Place of death London