THE COTMAN EXHIBITION AT
THE TATE GALLERY. BY H. M.
CUNDALL, I.S.O., F.S.A. 0 a
AS a fitting sequel to the Centenary
Exhibition of "Old" Crome's
works, held at the Castle Museum, Nor-
wich, last year, a display of paintings and
drawings by John Sell Cotman has been
recently held at the Tate Gallery. These
two men were the outstanding painters of
the Norwich School. Although of entirely
different temperaments there was much in
common between them, but Cotman with
his poetic feeling may have been influenced
by Turner. Crome, the founder of the
school, with the exception of visits to
London and a few excursions, including a
journey to the Continent, lived the whole
of his life in Norwich. He painted almost
entirely from nature. His two paintings of
Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, and Fish-
market on the Beach at Boulogne are excep-
tions. Several of his sons and a daughter
followed their father's footsteps, and among
his pupils James Stark, George Vincent,
and his eldest son John Berney were the
most distinguished. These, together with
Cotman, John Thirtle and Robert Lad-
brooke were the chief representatives of
what may be termed the first period of the
Norwich School. The last named was a
companion of Crome in his boyhood, and
he afterwards married a sister of his wife.
After Crome's death his mantle fell on
Cotman. With him were associated his two
sons, Miles Edmund and John Joseph, to-
gether with John Thirtle, who married a
THE TATE GALLERY. BY H. M.
CUNDALL, I.S.O., F.S.A. 0 a
AS a fitting sequel to the Centenary
Exhibition of "Old" Crome's
works, held at the Castle Museum, Nor-
wich, last year, a display of paintings and
drawings by John Sell Cotman has been
recently held at the Tate Gallery. These
two men were the outstanding painters of
the Norwich School. Although of entirely
different temperaments there was much in
common between them, but Cotman with
his poetic feeling may have been influenced
by Turner. Crome, the founder of the
school, with the exception of visits to
London and a few excursions, including a
journey to the Continent, lived the whole
of his life in Norwich. He painted almost
entirely from nature. His two paintings of
Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, and Fish-
market on the Beach at Boulogne are excep-
tions. Several of his sons and a daughter
followed their father's footsteps, and among
his pupils James Stark, George Vincent,
and his eldest son John Berney were the
most distinguished. These, together with
Cotman, John Thirtle and Robert Lad-
brooke were the chief representatives of
what may be termed the first period of the
Norwich School. The last named was a
companion of Crome in his boyhood, and
he afterwards married a sister of his wife.
After Crome's death his mantle fell on
Cotman. With him were associated his two
sons, Miles Edmund and John Joseph, to-
gether with John Thirtle, who married a