COTMAN, Thomas William
Thomas William Cotman was born at 58 St James Road, Bermondsey, London on 11 September 1847, third child of Henry Edmund Cotman (14 October 1800-27 May 1871), a commercial traveller, and his wife Maria Taylor (1813-1895), third daughter of the late William Taylor of Mattishall, Norfolk who married at St Andrew's Church, Norwich on 23 January 1842, Henry was a younger brother of John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782-24 July 1842). Thomas was a brother of Frederick George Cotman and of Henry Edmund Cotman and the family moved to Ipswich when Thomas was young and where Thomas studied at Ipswich School of Art and as William Cotman, in 1869 was awarded a prize from the Royal College of Art at South Kensington for the figure shaded. In 1869 he set up as an architect in Cutler Street, Ipswich later moving to St Nicholas Street, Ipswich, and who designed many of the most famous buildings in Felixstowe including the Railway Station, Harvest House (Felix Hotel), the Orwell and Bath Hotels, Barclays, and Lloyds Banks and in Ipswich Lloyds Avenue portico and the former Crown & Anchor Hotel plus many others. A member of the Ipswich Fine Art Club 1885-1915 and exhibited from St Nicholas Street, Ipswich in 1882, a watercolour 'Boston Stump'. In 1883 he moved to 7 Northgate Street, Ipswich, where his elder brother, [Henry Edmund Cotman,4628]], and his nephew Paul Goodwin Eade, the son of William Cotman Eade were his assistants. He retired in 1913, and went to live at Quilter Road, Felixstowe. Thomas William Cotman died at The Little Cottage, 3 Quilter Road, Felixstowe on 30 October 1925 and was buried in Old Felixstowe parish church, he was unmarried.
Works by This Artist
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Architectural Decoration on Parr's BankA stucco-fronted building built in 1901 in a free gothic style reminiscent of the early gothic revival. It stands on the corner of King Street and Princes Street, Ipswich.
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