{"title":"Cotman, John Sell (1782–1842)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe celebrated watercolourist and engraver John Sell Cotman (1782–1842), one of the leading lights of the Norwich School of painting, was born in Norwich, the son of a wealthy silk merchant. Desperate to seek his artistic fortune, he moved to London at the tender age of 16, where he worked as a printer and engraver. London at the turn of the century had a vibrant watercolour community, and it was during this time that he was introduced to J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin. It was under Girtin that Cotman developed the vibrant and detailed watercolour style that he is known for today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe exhibited a selection of works at the Royal Academy in 1800, at the age of 18, showing a fine hand for English watercolour landscapes, that rivalled the works of Turner and many other contemporary artists. Around 1806 Cotman returned to Norwich, where he became a teaching instructor in the fine arts, and briefly retired from the business of watercolour. He was appointed president to the Norwich Society of Artists in 1811, and it was around this time that he began steady work in engraving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1812 to 1823 he lived on the coast near Great Yarmouth, and travelled across England and abroad to Normandy to study the land and sea, producing a significant number of published volumes of etchings and engravings. Though he made a lucrative career out of this, it was watercolour that continued to call to him, and he began to exhibit again slowly in London, until he moved there formally in 1834 when he was appointed as Master of Landscape Drawing at King’s College School. It was in this role that he trained a young Dante-Gabriel Rossetti, as well as his own two sons Miles Edmund Cotman and John Joseph Cotman, who went on to become painters of stature. He died in London in 1842.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis works can be found in collections at the British Museum, Tate Britain, and the V\u0026amp;A; Newton ‘Cotman’ watercolours bear his name to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"john-sell-cotman-norfolk-church-architecture-set-of-3-etching-prints-1816-kb-762","title":"John Sell Cotman, Norfolk Church Architecture – Set of 3 etching prints 1816","description":"\u003cp\u003eA set of three original etching prints, John Sell Cotman, Norfolk Church Architecture, West Barsham, Frenze, Maddermarket, 1805 and 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA handsome set of three large etchings from Cotman's Norfolk Architecture. Depicting heraldic architectural details at the churches of West Barsham, Frenze and Maddermarket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn, etched and published by John Sell Cotman (1782–1842). The Maddermarket etching is dated 1805; the other two are 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach sheet approx.: 38.5 x 27.5cm.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52021498708297,"sku":"KB-762","price":210.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/kb-762.jpg?v=1743521125"}],"url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/de\/collections\/cotman-john-sell-1782-1842.oembed","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}