Cotmania. Vol. VI. 1930-31

of recommencing at Norwich & its environs, his regular
course of instructing in the elegant & useful
art of Drawing.
The Third Part of the 'Architectural Antiquities of
Normandy', will appear in his early part of the
present month.
J.S.C. is desirous of engaging a respectable young
man as an apprentice.
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From Reeve's M.S. 'J.S.C appears to have been
introduced to his Cholmeleys by his friend
Norton, a picture dealer in Yorkshire.'
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Cotman showed to J.M.W. Turner a copy he had made of
one of Turner's pictures of 'The Rivers of England'. Turner
wished to have it, mounted two sheets on the a panel &
gave it to Mr Chinery, editor of 'The Times', as his
own work. Some time later Mr Chinery had it
remounted & found on the back of his canvas,
'By John Sell Cotman, presented to my old & esteemed friend,
J.M.W. Turner. Mr Chinery is said to have
possessed the sketch up to the time of his death
in 1884.'