COX, David

1914 - 1979

David Cox was born at Falmouth, Cornwall on 5 December 1914, son of Alfred Cox, J.P., and his wife Maud née Wilson who married at Wadsley Bridge Church, Sheffield on 4 September 1912. In 1921 the family were living at Cranleigh, Island Estate, Newquay, Cornwall, 50-year-old Alfred, an engineer working for the Falmouth Water Company, 39-year-old Maud, 8-year-old Celia Reseigh and 6-year-old David with servants and visitors. David was educated at Weymouth College and King's College and studied in London, France and Italy and was associated with the St Ives Society of Artists and the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall. Cox initially trained as an aeronautical engineer but later turned to pottery and eventually to oil painting. Cox exhibited at the Royal Academy also showing at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New English Art Club, Royal West of England Academy, Leicester Galleries, Leger Galleries, Marlborough Gallery and widely overseas. David Cox married at St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, London on 23 May 1936, Margaret Eva Cambell MacLean, daughter of the late Cambell Maclean, and they had a son and a daughter. Unfit for active service during the Second World War, Cox moved to St Ives in 1947 and took over Robert Borlase Smart's (1881-1947) Porthmeor studio and was secretary of St Ives Society of Artists. He left St Ives in 1950 to live at 'Wick', Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk where he ran his own art school and one of his pupils was Paul Biddlecombe, who painted the interior of Cox's studio. David Cox died at Underwood Grange, Naunton, Suffolk on 18 March 1979.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Studio, Cubert, Newquay, Cornwall
1947 The Fal at Lamorran
from 5 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall
1949 The Green Petticoat
         Girl Reading
from Wick, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk
1951 358 Girl Dressing
         602 The Dressing Room
         624 The Red Jacket
1952 601 The Green Jacket
1954 137 The White Slip
637 Rehearsal

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Works by This Artist