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David Cox Junior (1809-1885) (attr.)
A sketch of Richmond Castle, North Yorkshire
Graphite and wash on paper
17.6 x 25.8 cm.; (within frame) 35.6 x 43.4 cm.
Provenance:
Private Collection, United Kingdom.
Loose applications of wash animate the wind-brushed foliage and running water of a landscape overlooked by castellated ruins, a keep standing tall at the centre of the ‘Riche Mount’, or ‘tall hill’. The landscape is that of Richmond, North Yorkshire, showing the Norman castle as viewed upstream across the river Swale, bisected by the three-arched Richmond Bridge. The Swale is flanked on the one side by a small group of domestic buildings, while a protrusion of rocks forms the other. A distant figure travels on foot by the narrow pathway which passes the rocky bank, of a deep tone which elongates the foreground with dramatic effect. This lone figure introduces a quiet human scheme within the landscape, anticipating the symbolic crossing from the dark structures of the bank into the more familiar human locality. The compositionally central bridge stands to represent a familiar passage between the rugged uncertainty of nature and the relative security of domestic environs. The castle stands metaphorically above this transition, unmoving in the passage of foot and time.
Richmond’s ruins prompted artistic interest across many centuries, and were painted by Turner, Thomas Girtin, Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding, James Orrock, and Philip Wilson Steer. David Cox Junior’s father had himself painted the castle from numerous elevations, including one view across the meadows (see Christie’s, 14 June 2001, lot 34). Construction began on the castle in 1071 by the Breton nobleman Alan Rufus, 1st Lord of Richmond. The Richmond estate was seized into the British monarchy in 1158, and was developed up until the end of the 14th century, and was already in part ruin by 1538. In 1855 the castle was made the headquarters of the North Yorkshire Militia, and between 1908-10 housed Robert Baden-Powell as commander of the Northern Territorial Army.
The present brushwork identifies it as that of the junior David Cox (1809-1885), who followed in the manner of his eminent father, David Cox Senior (1783-1859), a leading member of the Birmingham School of landscape artists. Born in Dulwich and educated at Hereford Grammar School, David Cox Junior was taught to paint by his father, and developed his own distinct style with greater colouring and more staid brushwork. Cox Junior’s work belonged to a Romantic tradition of the mid-19th century, and the pastoral views which he preferred often included North Wales, Scotland, and the lakes of Cumberland and the Midlands. Cox first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826, alongside the Society of Painters in Water Colours, where he was elected as an Associate in 1849. After his father’s death in 1859, he refrained from the use of their shared name without the qualifying addition of ‘Junior’ (Roget, 327). Cox died at Chester House in 1885, and his remaining paintings and drawings were dispersed by Christie’s on the 14th-15th April 1886.
Bibliography and further reading:
John Lewis Roget, A History of the Old Water-colour Society; Now the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours; with Biographical Notices of its Older and of all Deceased Members and Associates, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co.)
Nathaniel Neal Solly, 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 (London: Chapman and Hall, 1873)
- Attributed to:David Cox Junior (1809 - 1885, British)
- Dimensions:Height: 14.02 in (35.6 cm)Width: 17.09 in (43.4 cm)
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- Condition:The work is in good condition commensurate with age.
- Gallery Location:Maidenhead, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2820216026912
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