Portrait of the artist Miles Edmund Cotman
Portrait of the artist Miles Edmund Cotman
Portrait of the artist Miles Edmund CotmanInscribed by a later hand verso: Miles Edmund Cotman/by GeldartBlack and white chalk on brown paper32.3 by 23.5 cm., 12 3/4 by 9 1/4 in.Provenance:By descent in the Cotman family until 2023Literature:Illustrated London News, 1st August 1942, p.136Geldart was a close friend and sketching companion of Miles' brother John Joseph Cotman. He abandoned a career in the law in favour of being an artist and became a pupil of John Sell Cotman. Geldart also sketched his friend John Joseph, also a chalk drawing which was later engraved.){kind=link}
Joseph Geldart (1808-1882)
Portrait of the artist Miles Edmund Cotman
Inscribed by a later hand verso: Miles Edmund Cotman/by Geldart
Black and white chalk on brown paper
32.3 by 23.5 cm., 12 3/4 by 9 1/4 in.
Provenance:
By descent in the Cotman family until 2023
Literature:
Illustrated London News, 1st August 1942, p.136
Geldart was a close friend and sketching companion of Miles' brother John Joseph Cotman. He abandoned a career in the law in favour of being an artist and became a pupil of John Sell Cotman. Geldart also sketched his friend John Joseph, also a chalk drawing which was later engraved.