Memoir of the life of David Cox, member of the Society of painters in water colours, with selections from his correspondence, and some account of his works . grander feeling than inearlier days. From the sketches made at Bettws and Capel Curig thepreceding autumn he finished some admirable drawings,and these—eleven works in all—were exhibited in Pall Mallin the spring of 1856. The largest and most important were Driving the Flock, On the Moors near Bettws, PeatGatherers, North Wales, and * A Hayfield. Besides these, Dover—Wind and Rain, and Twilight, were verysuccessful drawings. The Peat Gath
Memoir of the life of David Cox, member of the Society of painters in water colours, with selections from his correspondence, and some account of his works . grander feeling than inearlier days. From the sketches made at Bettws and Capel Curig thepreceding autumn he finished some admirable drawings,and these—eleven works in all—were exhibited in Pall Mallin the spring of 1856. The largest and most important were Driving the Flock, On the Moors near Bettws, PeatGatherers, North Wales, and * A Hayfield. Besides these, Dover—Wind and Rain, and Twilight, were verysuccessful drawings. The Peat Gatherers, with a darksky and women bending in patient advance under the Welshcreels or baskets full of peat, and a wild moorland losingitself in the mist, was a complete poem in itself. On theMoors, a pelting storm is descending, and in the midst awild-looking bull is bellowing with extended tail. The artisthas thrown into this drawing his deepest and most incom-municable quality. On the 24th May Cox travelled up to London and remainedthere a few weeks on a visit to his son. It had been pre-viously arranged that Mr., now Sir William, Boxall, ,. LAST YEARS AT HARBORNE. 285 should paint a likeness of Cox on this occasion, and on the of June he went, accompanied by his grand-daughter, to 18551^ artists studio, where the portrait was commenced. Heappears to have enjoyed the sitting, as he said that Boxallconversed with him very pleasantly all the time. He wentagain on the 12th, and he was also able to pay visits to hisold friends Mr. Ellis and Mr. Norman Wilkinson. Few menhad friends more attached to him than Cox had; a friendshiponce formed was rarely or never broken, and the wordindifference was not in his vocabulary. The portrait bySir W. Boxall is in the possession of Mr. David Cox, jun., atBrixton Hill, and was lent by him to the Dublin Fine ArtExhibition in 1872. It is satisfactory as a work of art, but isnot considered quite so good a likeness as
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