In what year were the first Old Master drawings presented ?
Dr William Wycliffe Spooner ( 1882–1967 ) and his wife Mercie added to the Gallery 's collection of English watercolours in 1967 with a bequest of works by John Constable , John Sell Cotman , Alexander and John Robert Cozens , Thomas Gainsborough , Thomas Girtin , Samuel Palmer , Thomas Rowlandson , Paul Sandby , Francis Towne , J. M. W. Turner , Peter De Wint and others .