Artist: John Sell Cotman (1782 - 1842)
Nationality: English
Movement: English Landscape School
Media: Painting,Etching
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Biography:
After studying in London, John Sell Cotman returned home to work as a watercolorist and eventually join the Norwich School. In addition, Cotman also created successful oil paintings while living in Great Yarmouth from 1811 to 1823. As a result of poor sales, he returned to London and was employed as a drawing master at King’s College. His landscapes are known for their advanced use of light and shade, as well as their starkness.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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John Sell Cotman, Architectural Antiquities of Normandy (John and Arthur ArchäJ. S. Cotman, 1822), 1822
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John Sell Cotman, Windmill, 18th - 19th century
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John Sell Cotman, Tower of Tilney All Saints Norfolk, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Clifton - from Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Castle of Arques, plate at p. 1 in the book Architectural Antiquities of Normandy (John and Arthur ArchäJ. S. Cotman, 1822), 2 vols. in 1, 1822
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John Sell Cotman, One from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Near Durham, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Twickenham, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, A Study, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, A Study, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Deptford, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Whitby, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Bristol, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Untitled, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Untitled, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Untitled, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, A Study. From 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Picturesque Specimens of Saxon, Norman, and Gothic Architecture, Landscape, &c. (Norwich: J. S. Cotman, [1810-1811]), 1810 - 1811
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John Sell Cotman, Norwich Thorp, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Walsingham, Norfolk. From 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Caernarvon Castle, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838
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John Sell Cotman, Lakenham, near Norwich, from 48 plates to Liber Studiorium, 1838

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Tate Britian: Romantic Landscape: The Norwich School of Painters, 1803-1833
This group was strong but diverse. It was described as a school only because its leaders, John Crome and John Sell Cotman, operated in Norwich as teachers and drawing masters. Neither their own work, nor that of their pupils, displ...
Dulwich Picture Gallery: The Golden Age of Watercolours : The Hickman Bacon Collection
Sir Hickman Bacon had unusual tastes for his time. The collection is especially strong in the type of late, ethereal Turner watercolour that only became widely popular with the advent of abstract painting in the 1940s and 50s. The works by Girtin ...
Smart Museum of Art: Landscapes of Retrospection: The Magoon Collection of British Drawings and Prints, 1739 - 1854
Landscapes of Retrospection will be on view from January 25 to March 25 in the Richard and Mary L. Gray Special Exhibition Gallery of the Smart Museum and will offer a rare opportunity to see British landscape drawings and ...

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