Cox, David, an eminent landscape painter, rated by some next to Turner, born at Birmingham; began his art as a scene-painter; painted as a landscapist first in water-colour, then in oil; many of his best works are scenes in N. Wales; his works have risen in esteem and value; an ambition of his was to get £100 for a picture, and one he got only £20 for brought £3602 (1793‒1830).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Cowper, William * Cox, Sir George