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- David Cox
- Also known as
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David Cox
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primary name: Cox, David
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1783-1859
- Biography
- Landscape painter and watercolourist, etcher born at Deritend (Birmingham); apprenticed to Albert Fiedler, a miniature painter, taught drawing in Dulwich and Hereford. Began making soft-ground etchings on copper from original drawings in 1812; a large collection of his work is in the Birmingham City Museum.
- Bibliography
- DNB
Nathaniel Neal Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873
William Hall, A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius, 1881
David Cox, 1783-1859, Centenary Exhibition, exh. cat., Birmingham City Art Gallery, 1959
S. Wildman, et al, David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham, 1983
Timothy Wilcox, English Watercolors of the River Thames by David Cox and Cornelius Varley, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, Vol. 66, 2007, pp. 20-29
S. Wilcox, et. al., Sun, Wind and Rain: the Art of David Cox, New Haven and Birmingham, 2008
