Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/7
Page: Inserted after fol. 14
Description
Letter to Kitson from Grahame Cotman
Possible self-portrait by John Sell Cotman on sale in Norwich
Date: 1932
Transcription
15th May
1932.
Dear Mr. Kitson,
I have just seen an oil painting as Nightingales Shop on Elm Hill which is supposed to be a portrait of J. S. Cotman painted by himself.
I understand it was sold with this description at Christies just recently & the former owner’s name was a Miss Bostock.
When I heard of it I naturally was very