Dorothy Cox (artist)
Dorothy Cox, later Dorothy Llewellyn Lewis, (1882–1947) was a British artist, known for painting portraits in miniature and for her landscape pictures.
Biography[edit]
Cox was born in Finchley in north London and is recorded as being an art student in Croydon in 1901, although by then she already had a number of works shown in public exhibitions.[1] Her first painting was exhibited in 1899 and in 1901 she was elected a member of the Royal Miniature Society.[2] Throughout her career Cox continued to paint miniatures and also landscapes, often in watercolours. She exhibited at a variety of venues including at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. with the Society of Women Artists, and at both the Royal Academy and the Fine Art Society in London.[2] In Scotland, works by Cox were shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1916 to 1924 and also at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.[1]
In 1910 Cox married W. Llewellyn Lewis at Kensington in London and later lived at Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex before moving to Bournemouth.[1] The Brighton Museum & Art Gallery holds examples of her watercolours.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978 1 911121 63 3.
- ^ a b c David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 953260 95 X.