Rhyl Sands

David Cox was one of the leading landscape painters of the nineteenth century. He became famous for the freshness and immediacy with which he captured the effects of changing light and weather on the landscape, and particularly for his depictions of rugged Welsh hillsides, open fields, and windswept beaches. David Cox, worked in London, Hereford and Birmingham. He lived and worked in Harbourne, Birmingham from 1841 until his death in 1858.This is one of a number of his oil paintings held in the collection of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.