See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

DAVID See also:

• DAVID COX (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

COX (1783-1859)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 29th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1783, in a small See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house attached to the forge of his See also:

• FATHER

father,a hardworking See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master See also:

• SMITH
• SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
• SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
• SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
• SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
• SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
• SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
• SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
• SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
• SMITH, G
• SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
• SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
• SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
• SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
• SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
• SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
• SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
• SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
• SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
• SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
• SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
• SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
• SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
• SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
• SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
• SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
• SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
• SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
• SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
• SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
• SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
• SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
• SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
• SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)

smith, in a mean suburb of See also:

• BIRMINGHAM

Birmingham . Turning his See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand to what he could get to do, See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• COX, DAVID (1783-1859)
• COX, JACOB DOLSON (1828-1900)
• COX, KENYON (1856– )
• COX, RICHARD (I3oo ?–1581)
• COX, SAMUEL (1826–1893)
• COX, SAMUEL HANSON (1793-1880)
• COX, SIR GEORGE WILLIAM (1827-1902)

Cox, the father, was both blacksmith and whitesmith, and when the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war with See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France began took to the making of bayonets and horseshoes, on wholesale See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission, and immediately the boy See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David was thought able to assist he was taken from the poor elementary school in the neighbourhood, and set to the See also:

• ANVIL (from Anglo-Saxon anfilt or onfilti, either that on which something is " welded " or " folded," cf. German falzen, to fold, or connected with other Teutonic forms of the word, cf. German amboss, in which case the final syllable is from " beat," and

anvil . The See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to turn the boy to this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of labour had, however, been made too See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early; it was too heavy for his strength, and he was sent to what was called by the cyclops of Birmingham a " See also:

• TOY
• TOY, CRAWFORD HOWELL (1836– )

toy See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade," making lacquered buckles, painted lockets, See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

tin See also:

• SNUFF (from " to snuff, " i.e. to inhale, to draw in through the nose; cf. Dutch snuf, scent, Ger. Schnupfen, a cold, catarrh, and Eng. " snuffle, " " sniff, " &c.)

snuff-boxes and other " See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy " articles . Here David very soon acquired some See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of See also:

• PAINTING

painting miniatures, and his talents might have been misdirected had his master, Fieldler by name, not released him from his See also:

• APPRENTICESHIP (from Fr. apprendre, to learn)

apprenticeship by dying by his own hand; and David found an opening as See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour-grinder and See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene-painter's See also:

• FAG

fag in the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre then leased, with several others, by the father of See also:

• MACREADY, WILLIAM CHARLES (1793—1873)

Macready, the tragedian . This obscure step, not one of promotion at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, was really the most important incident in the uneventful career of Cox . The boy, who had inherited a rather weakly See also:

• BODY

body, and had been trained with care by a pious See also:

• MOTHER

mother, while intellectually negative and unable to See also:

• COPE
• COPE (M.E. cape, cope, from Med. Lat. capa, cappa)
• COPE, EDWARD DRINKER (1840-1897)
• COPE, EDWARD MEREDITH (1818-1873)

cope with any kind of learning whatever, had endless perseverance, See also:

• GREAT

great strength of application, and all through See also:

• LIFE

life remained genial, See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle, See also:

• SIMPLE

simple-minded and modest, his penetration and self-reliance being wholly professional, inspired by his love of nature and his knowledge of his subject . Not very See also:

• QUICK

quick, and with little versatility, he went step by step in one See also:

• LINE

line of study from the time he began to get the smallest remuneration for his pictures to the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of seventy-five, when he painted large in oil very much the same lass of subjects he had of old produced small in See also:

• WATER

water-See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours, with the same impressive and unaffectedly See also:

• NOBLE, SIR ANDREW (1832- )

noble sentiment, only increased by the mastery of almost See also:

• INFINITE (from Lat. in, not, finis, end or limit; cf. findere, to deave)

infinite practice . He was never led astray by fictitious splendour of any kind, except once indeed in 1825, when he imitated See also:

• TURNER, CHARLES (1773–1857)
• TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM (1775–1851)
• TURNER, NAT (1800-1831)
• TURNER, SHARON (1768-1847)
• TURNER, SIR JAMES (1615–1686)
• TURNER, WILLIAM (d. 1568)

Turner, and produced a classic subject he called " See also:

• CARTHAGE
• CARTHAGE (Phoenician Kart-hadshat, " New City "; Gr. Kapxn5c; v, Lat. Carthago or Carchedon)
• CARTHAGE, SYNODS OF

Carthage, See also:

• AENEAS

Aeneas, and See also:

• ACHATES

Achates." He never visited See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice or . See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, or crossed the Channel except for a See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week or two in See also:

• BELGIUM
• BELGIUM (Fr. Belgique; Flem. Belgic)

Belgium and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and never even went to See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland for painting purposes . Bettws-y-Coed and its neighbourhood was everything to him, and characteristics most truly English were beloved by him with a sort of filial See also:

• INSTINCT

instinct . So completely did he love the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, that even See also:

• LONDON

London, where it was his See also:

• INTEREST

interest to live, had few attractions, and did not retain him See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long . This See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence in the See also:

• METROPOLIS (Gr. piir17Pi mother, srGXis, city)

metropolis which began in 1804 was, however, of the most essential educational See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage to him .

The Water-Colour Society was established the See also:

• YEAR

year after he arrived, and was mainly supported by landscape-painters . He was not,of course,admitted at first into membership, not till 1813, before which time an attempt to establish a See also:

• RIVAL

rival See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition had been made . In this Cox joined, the result being very serious to him, an entire failure entailing the seizure and forced See also:

• SALE
• SALE, GEORGE (c. 1697-1736)
• SALE, SIR ROBERT HENRY (1782—1845)

sale of all the pictures . At that time the tightest See also:

• ECONOMY

economy was the See also:

• RULE

rule with him, and to See also:

• SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva; Lat. Savus)

save the trifling cost of new strainers or stretching boards, he covered up one picture by another . When these See also:

• WORKS

works were prepared for re-sale, fifty years afterwards, some of them yielded picture after picture, peeled off the boards like the waistcoats from the body of the gravedigger in See also:

• HAMLET

Hamlet ! While lodging near See also:

• ASTLEY, JACOB ASTLEY, BARON (1579-1652)
• ASTLEY, SIR JOHN DIIGDALB

Astley's See also:

• CIRCUS (Lat. circus, Gr. Kipeos or Kptxot, a ring or' circle; probably " circus " and " ring " are of the same origin)

Circus he married his landlady's daughter, and then took a modest cottage at See also:

• DULWICH

Dulwich, where he gradually See also:

• LEFT

left off scene-painting and became teacher, giving lessons at ten shillings a See also:

• LESSON (through Fr. lecon from Lat. lectio, reading; legere, to read)

lesson . This entailed walking to the pupils' homes, and the See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of the paintings done before the pupils . These have since been frequently sold for large sums, but his own See also:

• PRICE
• PRICE, BARTHOLOMEW (1818–1898)
• PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
• PRICE, RICHARD (1723-1791)

price, when lucky enough to sell his best works, was never over a few pounds, and more frequently about fifteen shillings . Sometimes, indeed, he sold them in quantities at two pounds a dozen to be resold to country teachers . By and by he resisted the leaving of the See also:

• WORK

work done to the See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil, but with little advantage to himself, as he saw no end to the See also:

• ACCUMULATION (from Lat. accumulare, to heap up)

accumulation of his own productions, and actually tore them up, and threw them into areas, or pushed them into drains during his trudge homeward . A number of years after he pointed out a particular drain to a friend, and said, " Many a work of mine has gone down that way to the See also:

• THAMES

Thames!" Shortly after he had turned See also:

• THIRTY

thirty, his stay in London suddenly ended . He was offered the enormous sum of boo per annum, by a ladies' See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college in See also:

• HEREFORD

Hereford, and thither he went .

This sum he supplemented by teaching in the Hereford See also:

• GRAMMAR (from Lat. grammatica, sc. ars; Gr. ypaµ)

grammar school for many years, at six guineas a year, and in other See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools at better pay, but still, and up to his fortieth year, we find his prices for pictures from eight to twenty-five shillings . Cox has no See also:

• HISTORY

history apart from his productions, and these particulars as to his remuneration possess an interest almost dramatic when we contrast them with the enormous sums realized by his later works, and with the " honours and observance, troops of See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends," that accompanied old age with him, when settled down in his own See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home at Harborne, near his native See also:

• TOWN

town, where he died on the 7th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1859 . Cox's second See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short residence in London, dating from 1835 to 1840, marks the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of his highest See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers . During those years, and for twelve years after, his productiveness kept See also:

• PACE (through O. Fr. pas, from Lat. passus, step, properly the stretch of the leg in walking, from pandere, to stretch)
• PACE, RICHARD (c. 1482-1536)

pace with his mastery, and it would be difficult to overrate the impressiveness of effect, and high feeling, within the narrow range of subject displayed by many of these works . He was now surrounded by dealers, and See also:

• WEALTH

wealth flowed in upon him . Still he remained the same, a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man with few wants and scarcely any enjoyments except those furnished by his See also:

• BRUSH (from Fr. brosse, which, like the English word, means both the undergrowth of a wood and the instrument; if the word in both these meanings is ultimately the same, then the origin is from a bundle of brushwood used as a brush or broom, but this is h
• BRUSH, GEORGE DE FOREST (1855– )

brush and his colours . The home at Harborne was a pleasant one, but the approach to the front was useless as the See also:

• DOOR (corresponding to the Gr. Bbpa,. Lat. fores or valvae; the English word, with other forms common in allied languages, comes from the same Indo-European stem as the Gr. Obpa and Lat. fares)

door was kept fastened up, the only entrance being through the See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden at the back, and the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• ROOM

room appropriated as his studio he was content to reach by a narrow See also:

• STAIR (0. Eng. stagger, step, from stigan, to climb, cf. Ger. steigen; the root is also seen in " stile " and " stirrup ")
• STAIR, JAMES DALRYMPLE

stair from the See also:

• KITCHEN (O.E. cycene; this and other cognate forms, such as Dutch keuken, Ger. Kiuche, Dan. kokken, Fr. cuisine, are formed from the Low Lat. cucina, Lat. coquina, coquere, to cook)

kitchen . Neitherin it nor elsewhere was there any luxury or even See also:

• TASTE (from Lat. taxare, to touch sharply; tangere, to touch)

taste visible:—no bric-d-brac, no See also:

• OBJECTS

objects of interest, few or no books, no pictures except landscapes by his friends . When in See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter, after his wife's See also:

• DEATH

death, the See also:

• FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire went out, and the See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold at last surprised him, he lifted his easel into the little dining-room and began again . A See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

union of his friends was formed in 1855 to procure a portrait of him, which was painted by See also:

• SIR

Sir J . See also:

• WATSON, RICHARD (1737-1816)
• WATSON, THOMAS (c. 1557–1592)
• WATSON, WILLIAM (1858- )
• WATSON, WILLIAM (c. 1559-1603)

Watson See also:

• GORDON
• GORDON, ADAM LINDSAY (1833—1870)
• GORDON, ALEXANDER (c. 1692—c. 1754)
• GORDON, CHARLES GEORGE (1833-'885)
• GORDON, LEON
• GORDON, LORD GEORGE (1751-1793)
• GORDON, PATRICK (1635–1699)
• GORDON, SIR JOHN WATSON (1788—1864)

Gordon; and an exhibition of his works was opened in London in 1858 and again another in 1859 . This was actually open when the See also:

• NEWS

news of his death arrived .

The number of David Cox's works, great and small, is enormous . He produced hundreds annually for perhaps See also:

• FORTY

forty-five years . Before his death and for ten years thereafter, their prices were remarkable, as See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

witness the following obtained at See also:

• AUCTION

auction—" Going to the See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

Mill," £1575; " Old Mill at Bettws-y-Coed," -CI575; " Outskirts of a See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

Wood, with See also:

• GIPSIES, or GYPSIES

Gipsies," £2305; " See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

Peace and War," £3430 . See See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall, See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

Biography of David Cox (1881) . (W . B .