John Sell Cotman
(1782–1842) British artist (1782-1842)
John Sell Cotman (United Kingdom, 1782–1842) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, John Sell Cotman belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
John Sell Cotman was born in Norwich and died in London. John Sell Cotman trained at Norwich School. John Sell Cotman worked in Norwich and London.
One of the best-known works is ‘Blasting St. Vincent's Rock, Clifton’. The works belong mainly to the genre marine art. The catalogue has 127 works by John Sell Cotman with free images. The dated works span the years 1799–1900. Works by John Sell Cotman are held by several collections, among them Norfolk Museums Collections, Welsh Landscape Collection, Yale Center for British Art, and drawings in the National Gallery of Art.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, John Varley, Waleria Tarnowska, and János Rombauer.