Editing John Sell Cotman (section)

===Final years===
[[File:John Joseph Cotman - portrait of John Sell Cotman.jpg|thumb|[[John Joseph Cotman]]'s chalk drawing of his father, made during his last visit to Norfolk in 1841, [[National Portrait Gallery, London]]]]
From 1839, Cotman became severely depressed, a condition that lasted into 1841.{{sfn|Holcomb|1978|p=16}} That year, he resumed his correspondence with Dawson Turner.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|p=352}} Granted a fortnight's leave from King's College, he journeyed from London to Great Yarmouth by ship and then on to Norwich, ultimately staying in Norfolk for two months before returning to the capital.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|pp=354{{ndash}}355}} He produced some chalk drawings of church interiors,{{sfn|Hemingway|1980|p=213}} and of the Norfolk countryside, the dates of which allow his journey around the county to be traced:{{sfn|Kitson|1937|pp=355, 358}} his sketches included ''Itteringham, 12 November'' and ''Storm off Cromer''.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|p=362}} During this period he was able to visit his elderly father at [[Thorpe St Andrew]] outside Norwich, when he probably began preparatory work for a painting, entitled ''From my Father's House at Thorpe''. His last oil painting—dated 18 January 1842 and never completed—was ''A View of the Norwich River''.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|p=360}}{{sfn|Cundall||1920|p=23}}

Cotman's depression returned, and by June 1842 he had become seriously ill, dying "of natural decay" on 24 July 1842.{{sfn|Holcomb|1978|p=17}} He was interred in the cemetery of [[St John's Wood Church|St John's Wood Chapel]], London.{{sfn|Moore|2008}} In his [[Will and testament|will]] he left everything to his wife Ann, and enabled her to receive a pension.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|pp=363{{ndash}}366}}{{sfn|Cundall||1920|p=23}} His paintings and drawings were sold off from May 1843, fetching lower and lower prices for his financially-troubled family as the sales continued.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|pp=367{{ndash}}368}}