Editing John Sell Cotman (section)

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[[File:John Sell Cotman, Mrs Edmund Miles and Ann Miles in the Miles family farmhouse, Felbrigg, Norfolk.jpg|thumb|''John Sell Cotman, Mrs Edmund Miles and Ann Miles in the Miles family farmhouse, Felbrigg, Norfolk'' by [[John Thirtle]] (1807), Norfolk Museums Collections]]
In late 1806, Cotman returned to live in Norwich. He joined the recently-formed Norwich Society of Artists, and exhibited 149 works with the society between 1807 and 1810.{{sfn|Moore|1985|p=68}} He became the society's President in 1811.

Cotman married Ann Miles at [[Felbrigg]] parish church on 6 January 1809.{{sfn|Moore|1985|p=68}} The pair remained devoted throughout their married lives.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|p=128}} Their eldest child [[Miles Edmund Cotman]] was born on 5 February the year after their marriage.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|p=132}} Their daughter Ann was born in July 1812 after the family moved to Great Yarmouth in April 1812, followed by three more sons, [[John Joseph Cotman]], (Francis) Walter, and Alfred Henry. who were born in 1814, 1816 and 1819 respectively.{{sfn|Kitson|1937|pp=159, 164}} A sixth child, a daughter, was born in 1822.{{sfn|Binyon|1897|p=60}}

As part of his teaching, Cotman operated his own version of a watercolour [[subscription library]], so that his pupils could take home his drawings to copy.{{sfn|Moore|1985|p=68}} In 1810, Cotman began to [[etching|etch]], and the following year his first set of etchings (''Miscellaneous Etchings'') was published, strongly influenced by the work of the Italian artist [[Giovanni Battista Piranesi|Piranesi]].{{sfn|Moore|1985|p=68}} All but one of the subjects were architectural, and were mostly of Yorkshire buildings.{{sfn|Binyon|1897|p=64}} He later published a set of etchings of the ancient buildings of Norfolk (''Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk'' (1818).{{sfn|Moore|1985|p=68}}