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David Cox
221 Colour Plates
By Maria Peitcheva
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David Cox: 221 Colour Plates
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Foreword
David Cox (1783 – 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolor. Although most popularly known for his works in watercolor, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career.
In the spring of 1811 Cox made a small number of notable works in oils during a visit to Hastings with his family. It is not known why he didn't continue working in this medium at the time, but the five known surviving examples were described in 1969 as surely some of the most brilliant examples of the genre in England
Cox reached artistic maturity after his move to Hereford in 1814. Although only two major watercolors can confidently be traced to the period between Cox's arrival in the town and the end of the decade, both of these – Butcher's Row, Hereford of 1815 and Lugg Meadows, near Hereford of 1817 – mark advances on his earlier work.
Cox's later work produced after his move to Birmingham in