ARTIST: John Joseph Cotman (British, 1814 - 1878)
NAME: Landscape - Path to the River
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Relined. Some repaired tears. Some craquelure. Some scattered inpainting. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 27 x 31 inches / 68 x 78 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
John Joseph Cotman was an English landscape painter, the second son of John Sell Cotman.Cotman was born in 1814 at Southtown, Great Yarmouth, and was baptised on 6 June 1814.He was sent to work for his uncle, a haberdasher, but spent much of his time making sketches in the countryside. When his father was appointed drawing-master at Kings College School in London in 1834, Cotman accompanied him to the capital, but in 1836 returned to Norwich to take over his brother Miles Edmund Cotman's art teaching work there as drawing master. He was a good teacher and artist of much original power, but suffered from periodical attacks of cerebral excitement followed by depression. These attacks became more frequent with age. In 1878 he was admitted to Norfolk and Norwich Hospital with cancer of the Tongue from which he died 15 March 1878, leaving a widow and several children.Cotman worked mostly in watercolour, painting, unlike his brother, in a rather loose, free manner.He died in Norwich 15 March 1878.