David Cox
David Cox: A Life in Landscape Early Life and Training Born: April 29, 1783, in Deritend, Birmingham, United Kingdom. David Cox’s father was a blacksmith and whitesmith supplying components to the Birmingham gun trade. His mother, from a farming background, possessed a superior education and strong character. He initially enrolled at the academy of Joseph Barber in Great Charles Street, where he met fellow students Charles Barber and William Radclyffe. At age 15, Cox became apprenticed to Albert Fielder, a Birmingham painter specializing in portrait miniatures and decorative paintin…
The Subject Atlas
A chart of David Cox's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Spokes — Subject
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Rings — Career Period
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Threads — Shared Context
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
