The Legacy of a Norfolk Romantic: Miles Edmund Cotman In the annals of British landscape painting, few names evoke the atmospheric soul of the English countryside as poignantly as Miles Edmund Cotman. Born in 1810 in the coastal town of Yarmouth, Norfolk, his life and art were inextricably linked to the salt-sprayed marshes and rolling vistas of his homeland. As a prominent figure within the Norwich School, Cotman did not merely observe the landscape; he translated its very breath onto canvas. His artistic identity was forged under the watchful eye of his father, the legendary John Sell Cotm…