John Sell Cotman Errand-boy asleep in a church ca. 1825 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
"For most of the twentieth century, Cotman was the most widely admired English watercolorist, surpassing even Turner in popularity." This is the stated opinion of curators at the British Museum, and it is borne out by many works of English fiction from the same period, with tasteful upper-class interiors regularly indicated in shorthand for the reader by the "Cotmans" on the walls. Agatha Christie does this in almost every book.
John Sell Cotman In Rokeby Park ca. 1800-1810 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Waterfall in desolate landscape before 1842 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Blickling Church, Norfolk before 1842 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman A Summer Day ca. 1827-37 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Bridge in a Continental town ca. 1830 watercolor, gouache Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Chateau Navarre near Evreux, Normandy ca. 1830 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Ruin of a Norman church ca. 1825 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Barons' Hall, Mont Saint-Michel 1820 wash drawing Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Caverns excavated from rock within Chateau Gaillard near Andelys, Normandy 1822 wash drawing Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Bolton Priory, Yorkshire ca. 1803 wash drawing Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Portrait of a scholar 1802 wash drawing Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Group of trees by a fence before 1842 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |
John Sell Cotman Fantastic figures seated on a mound ca. 1800 watercolor Yale Center for British Art |