€85
Star Lot: David Cox (Birmingham School b. 1783 - d. 1859) A brilliant set of pencil on paper drawings featuring characterful figures including town crier, market trader and dashing gentleman. Lovely drawings. Provenance 'From the collection of Rev. Archdeacon Spencer, Belfast 1916'. Current being housed in a vintage Cadbury Milk tray box. Cox's drawings sell very well at auction with similar framed works fetching into the early hundreds.
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 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 watercolour. Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter.
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