Live Auction 8029Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours
David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Lot 158

David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)

A man with horses and an angler in Bolton Park, Yorkshire

Closed5 July 2011

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GBP 5,250

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David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
A man with horses and an angler in Bolton Park, Yorkshire
signed and dated 'David Cox./18[44?]' (lower left, partially detached)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic and with scratching out
7½ x 10 5/8 in. (19 x 27 cm.)

Holbrook Gaskell (+); Christie's, London, 25 June 1909, lot 173, (55 gns to Agnew's).
with The Fine Art Society, July 1954.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1992, lot 111 as 'A Scene in Bolton Park, Yorkshire'.

Specialist note

Cox travelled throughout Yorkshire in September 1844 visiting and executing views of Bolton Abbey, Bolton Bridge and Knaresborough, examples of which are in Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery and The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.

Holbrook Gaskell (1813-1909), a successful engineer and manufacturer from Liverpool, formed what was considered one of the finest collections of paintings in the north of England. It included important works by artists such as Bonington, Constable, Cox, Gainsborough and Turner, and early British portraits.

For other David Cox watercolours see lots 155-7 and 161.