We found 53807 price guide item(s) matching your search
There are 53807 lots that match your search criteria. Subscribe now to get instant access to the full price guide service.
Click here to subscribe- List
- Grid
-
53807 item(s)/page
Lot 187
*Cox (David, 1783-1859). Near Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales, 1852, watercolour over pencil on pale grey wove paper, signed and dated lower left, sheet size 20.5 x 29.5 cm (8.1 x 11.6 ins), mounted, with early ink title inscription, and label of Henry Graves & Company, 44 Cherry Street, Birmingham, retained One of the artist's favourite locations, Cox first visited 'dear old Bettws'in 1844 and returned almost every year until 1856. The Royal Oak Inn, where he regularly stayed, became a rendez-vous for visiting artists and followers of Cox: 'he sat on the sofa in the parlour of the Royal Oak inn...Here he took his cigar (he smoked no pipe) and his pint of ale, with one or two cronies by his side, willing to listen and willing to teach... it was an intelligent, rational, pleasant evening's amusement, and I have heard French, German, Hungarian, English, and Welsh flowing on like a polyglot stream at the same time in that same dingy parlour.' (Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, page 172). (1)
Loading...-
53807 item(s)/page