Karen Taylor Fine Art returns to Illustrationcupboard Gallery for a second summer show, bringing a selection of British 18th and 19th century paintings and drawings this month.
Among the highlights is a fresh group of watercolours by Louis Francia (1772- 1839), a French artist specialising in shore landscapes who spent much of his earlier life in the UK, and others by the Norwich school painter John Sell Cotman (1782-1842).
The works have not been seen in public since they were painted in the 1830s. They were collected together into a friendship album compiled by Baron Francois Akerman (1809-90), regent of the Banque de France, for his wife Louise Bouquet de Saint Simon after their marriage in 1836.