David Cox [English Painter, 1783-1859] English painter. After taking drawing lessons from Joseph Barber (1757/8-1811) in Birmingham, Cox worked briefly as an apprentice to a painter of lockets and snuff-boxes named Fieldler. This was followed about 1800 by a longer period painting scenery for the New Theatre, Birmingham. On the promise of similar employment at Astley's Amphitheatre in Lambeth, Cox travelled to London in 1804, but when this came to nothing he decided to make his name as a watercolour painter. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1805 and from 1809 until its demise in 1812 with the Associated Artists in Water-Colours, of which he became both member and president in 1810. He was elected an Associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1812 and within a month had advanced to full membership.   Related Paintings of David Cox :. | Old Westminster (mk47) | crossing the sands | Keep the Left Road (mk47) | A Welsh Funeral | Embarkation of His Majesty George IV from Greenwich (mk47) |
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1853-1902 John Henry Twatchman Galleries
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painted Pier Damiano e la contessa Adelaide di Savoia in 1887
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painted Girl at the piano in 1892