Editing John Sell Cotman (section)

===Return to Norwich===
[[File:John Sell Cotman's house in St Martin's Plain, Norwich.jpg|thumb|Cotman's house in St Martin's Plain, [[Norwich]]]]
Cotman returned to Norwich in 1824, hoping to improve his financial position, and moved into a large house in St Martin's Plain, opposite the Bishop's Palace, where he built up a collection of prints, books, armour, and models of ships, to aid his compositions.{{sfn|Binyon|1897|p=76}} He showed work from 1823 to 1825 at the Norwich Society of Artists' annual exhibitions.

In 1825, Cotman became an Associate of the [[Royal Watercolour Society|Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours]] and was a frequent exhibitor there until 1839. During this period in his career he was driven to despair by his constant financial struggles.