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John Sell Cotman (1782–1842): Landscape and Imagination

Introduction John Sell Cotman occupies a distinctive place in the history of British landscape painting. Celebrated above all for the extraordinary formal clarity of his early watercolours, he was also an accomplished painter in oils whose later work reveals a restless appetite for experiment. His landscapes combine close observation with imaginative reconstruction, transforming familiar sceneryContinue reading “John Sell Cotman (1782–1842): Landscape and Imagination”