David Cox Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
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 Barbe
r and William Radclyffe. At age 15, Cox became apprenticed to Albert Fielder, a Birmingham painter specializing in portrait miniatures and decorative paintings for objects like snuffboxes. This early training provided him with foundational skills. Career Development & Artistic Journey In 1804, Cox moved to London and married his landlord’s daughter, Mary Ragg. A pivotal trip to Wales in 1805 with Charles Barber marked the begi…