1800
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
A Cornfield is a 1800 watercolor by David Cox, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows two people sitting on a grassy hillside, wrapped in light-colored cloaks. Behind them, a wide field of cut corn stretches toward a distant shoreline. The sky is pale blue with wispy clouds, and in the far background, low mountains fade into the horizon. The brushstrokes are loose and soft, blending colors smoothly to show light and shadow. The artist focused on everyday life, not grand drama. Look up David Cox to see more of his landscapes.
A watercolour by David Cox from 1800 depicts a view within a cornfield and bears the artist's signature. The work entered the national collection following its inclusion in Richard Ellison’s gift of 100 British watercolours, donated by his widow in 1860 and 1873 to support the establishment of the National Collection of Water Colour Paintings.
Read the full account in the museum source.
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.
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