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George Cotman was a East Anglian painter of portraits, landscape, genre
and historical scenes. He was the son of Henry Cotman and the nephew of
the artist John Sell Cotman.
Cotman entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1868. He was a regular
exhibitor of both oils and watercolours, showing at the Royal Academy
from 1871 onwards. His The Death of Eucles (Town Hall, Ipswich) won him a gold medal in 1873.
Cotman's early watercolours were admired and bought by important
artistic figures such as Frederic Leighton and G. F. Watts. Leighton
engaged Cotman to help paint The Daphnephoria in 1876. Cotman was
also employed in a similar capacity by H. T. Wells. Whistler too
admired Cotman's work, and, in a letter of 1888 to Walter Dowdeswell,
spoke approvingly of Cotman's current work on exhibition as 'very
pretty'.
Cotman exhibited three of his works at the Royal Society of British
Artists, and also exhibited at Agnew and Sons Gallery, the Dudley
Gallery, Dowdeswell Galleries, Fine Art Society, Grosvenor Gallery,
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Royal Institute of Oil
Painters and Walker's Gallery in London. Outside London, he showed his
work at the Royal Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Walker Art
Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, the Glasgow Institute
of the Fine Arts and the Royal Scottish Academy.
Cotman is represented in the following collections: National Museum, Liverpool; Norwich Museum, UK; amongst others.
Source:
Sphinx Fine Art
http://www.sphinxfineart.com/Cotman-Frederick-George-
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