Article: Cotman's arcadian dreamland: a large display of some of John Sell Cotman's finest watercolours, shown at the Bowes Museum in the summer, has just opened at Harewood House, Together with a related book, it brings the artist's arrival at creative maturity into finer focus.(Exhibitions)

In the summer of 1803 the twenty-two-year-old John Sell Cotman visited the north of England in the company of his fellow watercolourist Paul Sandby Munn. For a week in early July they stayed at Brandsby Hall, north of York, as guests of the Cholmeley family, to whom they had been introduced by the polymath and picture collector Sir Henry Englefield, who was Mrs Cholmeley's brother. Cotman found the stay rewarding, for it brought him an invitation to return as drawing master to the four Cholmeley daughters, once he had undertaken a three-week tour of Yorkshire and County Durham with Munn. The subsequent visit lasted six weeks, and it permitted Cotman to make some impressive ...

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