Cotmania. Vol. XI. 1935-6

FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE.

7 Sept 1935

Dear Kitson,
The following is the account given in Thieme-Becker’s Künstler-Lexikon of S.D. Colkett.
“Landscape painter, etcher & lithographer of the Norwich school, born in Norwich 1.3.1806, died in Cambridge 24.1.1863. In 1818 he exhibited for the first time in the Norfolk & Norwich Society of Artists (Carnarvon Castle); about the same time he became a pupil of James Stark, whom he imitated during his life & to some extent also copied. Between 1822 & 1833 Colkett showed 32 pictures at the above society’s exhibitions, & exhibited also at the Royal Academy (1830-31), the British Institution (1825-62) and the Suffolk Street Gallery. From 1828-36 he lived in London, then till 1844 in Norwich, till 1854 in Yarmouth, and from then till his death in Cambridge. He was also active as teacher, copyist, restorer & dealer in pictures. A landscape by Colkett is in the Nottingham Museum; the British Museum has 3 landscape etchings by him, of which one is independent in subject, & the others are taken