Frederick George Cotman 1850 - 1920
Frederick George Cotman , watercolour artist "Frederick George Cotman was born in Ipswich in 1850. At the age of 18 he entered the Royal Academy School. He began his career as a portrait painter and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871. Two years later he won a Gold Medal for historical painting. He then turned to painting interiors and landscapes in addition to portraits. At the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, he was awarded a Silver Medal. The artist lived in London for a time and travelled extensively. Later in life he returned to East Anglia and maintained a studio in Felixstowe. One Of The Family is one of Cotman's most famous paintings, and depicts a delightful family around a table eating a meal. The models used by Cotman for this scene were an actual family, named Street, who lived in the north of England. The child on the bottom right of the picture emigrated to New Zealand when she was sixteen, and now a whole family of descendants of this child in New Zealand proudly own copies of the painting. " See Bâenâezit, E., Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, 8 vols, Paris, 1956-61; Johnson, J. and A. Greutzner, The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940, Woodbridge, 1980; Wood, Christopher, Dictionary of Victorian Painters, Woodbridge, 1971.
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| Born: Ipswich, Suffolk, England 14th Aug 1850 | Baptised:
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Timeline
| 14th Aug 1850 | Born Ipswich, Suffolk, England | | 31st Mar 1851 | Son in 1851 census (census) Diss, Norfolk, England | | 1861 | Son in 1861 census (census) Ipswich, Suffolk, England | | 1871 | Lodger in 1871 census (census) England | | 1875 | Married Ann Barclay Grahame
(Cotman ) 1850 - 1936 England | | 1891 | Head of household in 1891 census (census) Eton, Berks., England | | 1920 | Died |
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