Old Masters, British & European Paintings - 7th September 2016
Lot 69
David Cox Snr. (1783-1859 Near Rowsley
Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £380
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Description
David Cox Snr. (1783-1859
Near Rowsley, Derbyshire
Titled
Black chalk, with chalk sketch verso
20 x 26.5cm; 7¾ x 10½in.
Provenance:
William Ellis, 1845
Private collection, Canterbury
Michael Bryan, 1998
With Martyn Gregory, 2005
This drawing dates from Cox's trip to Derbyshire in May 1845 in the company of his friend and patron William Ellis. He frequently visited Haddon Hall from 1831 onwards and the area was a favourite sketching area. He normally stayed at the Peacock Inn at Rowsley. Cox's friend N.N. Solly recalls: These views at Rowsley were generally sketched before breakfast. Cox made sometimes two drawings before breakfast, and began a third, and then spent the day afterwards sketching at Haddon Hall; this was in the month of May, 1845, when he was still in his full vigour (N.Neal Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873, p.269).