John Sell Cotman

On May 15, 2026 - 19th Century, may 16

John Sell Cotman, English painter, May 16, 1782 – July 24, 1842

John Joseph Cotman

Portrait of John Sell Cotman, 1841

Chalk on paper, 18.4 x 14.0 in

National Portrait Gallery, London

House at St Stephen's Road, Norwich, 1794

Pen and grey ink with grey, blue and red wash on paper, 5.1 x 6.8 in //

British Museum, London

Mountainous Landscape, North Wales, c 1802

Watercolor and gum over graphite on medium slightly textured cream wove paper, 8.50 x 12.63 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Greta Bridge, c 1805

Watercolor, 9 x 12.9 in //

British Museum, London

Mousehold Heath, 1810

Drawing on paper, 11.7 x 17.1 in //

British Museum, London

Caverns Excavated in the Rock within the Castle of Chateau Gaillard, near Andelys, Normandy, 1822

Graphite and brown wash on medium smooth cream wove paper, 12.2 x 17.8 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Abbatial House of the Abbey of St Ouen at Rouen, 1825

Watercolor on paper, 16.6 x 22.5 in //

Norfolk Museums Collections

Boats off the Coast, Storm Approaching, 1830

Watercolor over traces of graphite, with gouache, scratching out, stopping out, and gum arabic, 18 9/16 × 25 11/16 in //

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Drainage Mills in the Fens, Croyland, Lincolnshire, c 1835

Oil on canvas, 21.7 x 36.1 in //

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

A Castle in Normandy

Graphite on paper, 7 5/16 x 10 1/2 in //

Cleveland Museum of Art

Windmill, Norfolk

Watercolor, 3.9 x 4.9 in //

Private collection

The Mouth of the Yare

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk, 19th century

Watercolor over graphite on medium moderately textured beige wove paper, 13.38 x 9.48 in

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

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