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Who was John Sell Cotman? Painter especially of Watercolours. Date and Place of Birth: 16th May 1782, Norwich, England. Family Background: Son of a well-off merchant. Education: 1798 sent to London to study painting and met J.M.W. Turner and Girtin. Chronology: 1798: Went to London to be an artist and was employed by Rudolph Ackermann at the Depository of Arts in the Strand. 1800: Staying in Wales with the well-known collector Sir George Beaumont. 1803-05: Visited the Cholmeley Family of Brandsby Hall, Yorkshire. 1806: Settled back in Norwich where he opened a school of drawing and design. Became Vice President of Crome's Norwich School of Artists. Also became drawing master to the banker and antiquarian Dawson Turner in Great Yarmouth. 1816-1818: "Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk". 1819: Wrote "Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk". 1820: Plates for Dawson Turners "Tour in Normandy". 1822: Plates for Dawson Turner's "Architectural Antiquities of Normandy". 1834: Became Professor of Drawing at Kings College, London through the offices of Lady Palgrave, Dawson Turner's daughter. 1838: "Liber Studiorum" (48 soft-ground etchings). Paintings: "Chirk Aqueduct" 1805: "Greta Bridge" (British Museum). Marriage: 1809 to Ann Miles. Places of Interest: NORFOLK: Norwich City and Castle. Date and Place of Death: 24th July 1842, London, England. Age at Death: 59. Site of Grave: St. George’s Church, Wellington Road, St. John’s Wood, London, England.