Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/12
Page: 4 verso
Description
More Cotman Discoveries - Sketches as "Backings" by S.D. Kitson (cont).
Illustrated London News magazine image of Peter Norton. Aged 18. June 17, 1800 / caption with reference to Norton family
Date: 23 January 1937
Transcription
{Illustrated London News magazine image of Peter Norton. Aged 18. June 17, 1800.}
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{caption with reference to Norton family}
Peter Norton (1782-1868), born in the same year as Cotman, was the son of James Norton, bookseller, of Bristol. He became a picture-dealer and afterwards lived in Soho Square, London, where Cotman dined with him in 1834. In 1799 Cotman had become acquainted in London with James Norton's brother, a stationer in Soho Square, and through him visited James in Bristol in 1800, when he drew pencil portraits of all the family. The above drawing is in the collection of Mrs. Mitchell, of Danbury, Essex, who has ten portraits of the Norton family pasted into "The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol," by William Barrett, Surgeon, F.S.A. (the dupe of Chatterton), 1789.