An angler on the river Llugwy, Bettws-y-Coed

Details

David Cox (1783-1859)
An angler on the river Llugwy, Bettws-y-Coed
signed 'David Cox' (on the reverse)
oil on unlined canvas
15½ x 11 1/8 in. (39.5 x 28.5 cm.)

Provenance

Given to William Hall by the artist.

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Lot Essay

During the mid 1840s and 1850s, Cox, enjoying the technical freedom that working in oil afforded him, frequently executed plein air sketches and made a number of sketching trips to North Wales, often accompanied by the artist William Hall. In this picture, the tiny figure of the angler is dwarfed by the dramatic and towering landscape. Cox's biographer, Solly, characterises the wild beauty of this area, '...the mountain streams, the Machno, the Lledr and the Llugwy, flow on towards their junction with the Conway, now sleeping in dark deep salmon pools and now foaming and fretting over huge boulders, pent in between lofty walls of rock' (N.N. Solly, Memoir of the life of David Cox, 1873, p. 158).

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