Artwork

In Windsor Park

In Windsor Park, by David Cox, watercolor, 1807
In Windsor Park, by David Cox, watercolor, 1807

In Windsor Park is a watercolor work on paper by the Romanticist artist David Cox. It dates from 1807 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

About this work

David Cox painted *In Windsor Park* in 1807. He used watercolour, a medium he helped make respected. The scene shows Windsor but nods to 17th-century artist Gaspard Dughet.

Cox admired Dughet’s landscapes and copied his oil paintings early on. That influence shows up in this work. It’s one of Cox’s first known views of Windsor.

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Overview

The work reflects the influence of 17th-century landscape painter Gaspard Dughet, whose compositions Cox studied and copied.

A watercolour by David Cox from 1807 depicts Windsor Park, featuring Windsor Castle within the grounds, framed in gilt. The work reflects the influence of 17th-century landscape painter Gaspard Dughet, whose compositions Cox studied and copied. Previously held in the collections of Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Fitzgerald, the piece was exhibited at the Liverpool Art Club in 1875 and later shown at the Louvre in Paris in 1938.

Artist & collection

Portrait of David Cox

Artist

David Cox

David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.