DAVID COX, R.W.S. (1783 -1859)
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DAVID COX, R.W.S. (1783 -1859)
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Shrimpers at Boulogne1832 watercolour with scratching out on paper, 20 X 29.3 cm inscribed: David Cox 1832 inscribed on reverse: Between Boulogne & Calais D. Cox
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This coast scene, with its long vista of drying sand as the tide goes out, may reflect the influence of shore scenes by BONINGTON, who had died in 1828. Cox would have been familiar with his work following the artist’s studio sale in 1829. In 1829 Cox paid his first visit to Paris calling on FRANCIA, Bonington’s teacher, in Calais and then sketching at Boulogne, which he may have revisited on his final trip to France in 1832. EJ PROVENANCE: Sotheby’s 16 April 1958 lot 1; Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, from whom purchased by Gallery, October 1958. EXHIBITIONS: Watercolours and Drawings from The Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Bedford, London, Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd, 1962, no.47; English Watercolours from The Cecil Higgins Art Gallery Bedford, Reading, Reading Art Gallery, 1965, no.8. Copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll. |
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