Early Life and Training
David Cox, a renowned English landscape painter, was born on April 29, 1783, in Deritend, Birmingham. His father, a blacksmith and whitesmith, supplied components to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother, daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath, had a better education than his father and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character.
Cox initially enrolled in the academy of
Joseph Barber in Great Charles Street, where he met fellow students
Charles Barber and
William Radclyffe. At 15, Cox was apprenticed to
Albert Fielder, a Birmingham painter who produced portrait miniatures and paintings for snuffboxes.
Career Highlights
* In 1804, Cox moved to London, taking lodgings in 16 Bridge Row, Lambeth, and married his landlord's daughter,
Mary Ragg.
* He made his first trip to Wales in 1805 with
Charles Barber, marking the beginning of numerous sketching tours throughout his lifetime.
* Cox exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1805, earning a living mainly as a drawing master. His first pupil,
Colonel the Hon.H. Windsor, engaged him in 1808.
Artistic Legacy
* Cox is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters and a major figure of the Golden Age of English watercolour.
* He painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now recognized as "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter."
* Cox is an early precursor of Impressionism, influencing the development of landscape art.
Notable Works and Exhibitions
Further Reading and Exploration
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