Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

WALKERS ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF WATER COLOURS
June 30 - 1930 - [Auction]

J.S. Cotman, 1782-1842

1. Mount St. Catherine, Rouen - View from the river, with boats and figures - 1823
   (from the collection of J. Davey, Esq., exhibited at Norwich, 1888 and 1902; from the collection of J. H. Inglis Palgrave, Esq., reproduced in "The Studio," 1919).
   19 1/4 X 11 1/4 in.
   525 gs. [guineas]

2. Fishing Boasts off the Coast 225 gs
   24 3/4 X 18 1/4 in.

3. Duckpond
   5 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.

4. Ruined Priory - '1462 Cotman'. Ex Coll T. Woolner.
   7 1/8 x 8 7/8 in.

22.Western End of a Church from the South Aisle
16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.

1. Catfield Church - South Side (wash)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   11 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.

2. Hempstead Church (wash)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.

3. Hunstanton Church Font (pencil)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   7 1/2 x 5in.

4. Ingham Church (wash)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   9 3/8 x 7 1/2 in.

5. Stratton St. Mary (wash)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   7 3/4 x 10 in.

6. Sutton Church (wash)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   12 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.

7. West Barsham Church (pencil)
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. 'July 3. 1815. 1980'

8. Wheatacre Church
   (from the Bulwer Collection) 45 gs.
   10 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.

9. Carting in a Wood (black-and-white chalk)
   14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.

M.E. Cotman, 1810-1858

1. The Yare at Southtown, Yarmouth
   11 7/8 x 10 3/8 in.

2. Norwich Cathedral - Jesus Chapel
   (from the Bulwer Collection)
   5 7/8 x 7 1/4 in.

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When all is said, however, about these great men the special interest of the exhibition of on such discoveries as "Fishermen on the Beach" - as good as most Coxs- by W. R. Beverley; the Pre-Raphaelite "View of Portsmouth Harbour," By S. Howitt; the very delightful "Children Returning from Fishing," by H. Jutsum; and the nobly designed "View of Richmond Hill,2 by W. Pars. Included in the exhibition there is a collection of 25 drawings of local subjects by Captain Henry Pendarves Tremenheere, who died at Treeneere, Penzance, in 1841, rahter like Farington in style, and full of interest to anyone familiar with the neighbourhood. Among the foreign drawings are two luminous "Shipping Scenes," by William Van de Velde the Younger.
Times

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Mr August Walker's sixth annual exhibition at his galleries, 118, New Bond Street, is fully up to the high standard set by its predecessors. How he manages to maintain the freshness of the series is best known to himself. All we are concerned with is the artistic treat he prepares for us yearly.
Among the finer things placed before us are an exquisite "View near Veletre" by J R Cozens, the shimmering early "Scene in the English Lakes," by Turner, and the splendid black and white drawing "farm cart under trees," by Gainsborough. Almost equally attractive are the admirably visualised and broadly treated "Pere la Chaise, Paris - 1831" by T S Boys, the monumentally designed "Mount St. Catherine, Rouen" by J. S Cotman, whose chalk sketch "Carting in a Wood" has much of the ease and grace of a Gainsborough. Good drawings also represent H Jutsum (75), P de Wint (50), W W Deane, G Harley (60), W Pars (106), A Pugin (108), James Rouse (123), W Callow (15), and E Dayes.
Note, too, should be made of a number of capital topographical memories by Captain Henry Pendarves Tremenheere of a clever unascribed drawing (175), and of remarkable drawings by three foreigners, one a characteristic bistre sketch, rightly, I think, ascribed to Fragonard, the vivid "Military Encampment" (183), by J F J Swebach-Desfountaines, and "Greenwich - 1837," by Louis Theinon.
Morning Post.

As punctually as welcome comes the annual exhibition of early English watercolours - the twenty-sixth of the series - at Walker's galleries, 118, New Bond Street. In these exhibitions Mr Augustus Walker, whose knowledge of the school, in its main current and backwaters alike, is extensive and peculiar, is serving much more than his personal interests, and nobody can visit the exhibitions without learning something that might have escaped him at our public galleries.
The present exhibition consists of nearly 200 drawings, including about a dozen by foreign artists. Though there are examples of Turner, Cotman, Alexander and J R Cozens, Gainsborough and De Wint, the great majority are by their less famous contemporaries, so that the general effect of the exhibition is to broaden appreciation. The Turners are mostly, if not all, of the kind which relate him to rather than distinguish him from the school as a whole, "The Colosseum at Rome" and "Cassiobury Park" being typical of the individual qualities that he added to his interpretation of J R Cozens. "View near Veletre" is perhaps the most poetical of the drawings by that artist - described by Constable as "all poetry" - and there are two "Coast Scenes," in sepia by Alexander Cozens. In the case of Cotman an attempt has been made to sort our his actual workmanship from that of his sons, J J and Myles E; possibly the decision, in some cases, has been over-sanguine, but "Ruined Priory" in colour, and "Carting in a Wood," in black and white chalk, look all right. The Girtins and the De Wint are not of great consequence, but there is a very beautiful Gainsborough chalk drawing of "Farm-cart under trees."