# David (1783) Cox artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-1783-cox/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:00:00.000Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Common media: Landscape painting

## Portrait

![David (1783) Cox](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_David_Cox%2C_1783_-_1859._Landscape_painter_-_PG_554_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg/1280px-Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_David_Cox%2C_1783_-_1859._Landscape_painter_-_PG_554_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg)
John Watson Gordon · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_David_Cox,_1783_-_1859._Landscape_painter_-_PG_554_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg

## About David (1783) Cox

David Cox (1783–1859) is identified in the collected portrait metadata as a landscape painter. The source pack does not include an institution-grade biography, authority file, or museum collection essay, so nationality, full birth and death dates, training, affiliations, and movement labels remain unconfirmed here. Collectors encounter the name through Appraisily's matched public-auction index, which covers records dated from 2007 through 2025, but the available market page uses broad category labels and provides limited evidence for defining the artist's complete body of work. Objects should therefore be matched by more than a name or signature. Date, medium, subject, inscriptions, provenance, and comparison with securely documented examples are important when considering attribution. This profile treats the 1783–1859 lifespan and landscape-painter description as provisionally supported by two collected portrait records while leaving nationality, movements, characteristic subjects, and named series open pending stronger institutional sources.

## Common works and media

The collected market page groups records under broad headings that include fine art and paintings, works on paper and prints, sculpture and mixed media, and decorative art and editions. These are index categories, not a confirmed catalogue of David Cox's practice. The portrait metadata identifies him as a landscape painter but does not document particular works, subjects, or techniques. Until museum, scholarly catalogue, or authority sources are added, appraisal intake should record an object's exact medium, support, dimensions, subject, signature or inscriptions, condition, and provenance rather than assuming that it represents a typical work by the artist.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's collected market page reports 22 matched records, 11 with prices, dated from 2007 through 2025. It gives an observed price range of $400 to $10,795 and a median near $1,375. These figures describe the current index rather than predicting the value of another work. Reported results may also differ in their treatment of buyer's premiums and fees. Useful comparisons should closely match medium, dimensions, date, condition, restoration history, signature or inscriptions, provenance, exhibition or catalogue references, and attribution confidence. Because the identity evidence and category classification in this source pack are thin, each lot image and description should be reviewed before the result is accepted as a meaningful comparable.

## Appraisily data basis

This page combines the limited artist-identity evidence in the collected source pack with Appraisily's matched public auction records. When available, those records provide auction context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots; private sales, incomplete feeds, differing fee treatment, and later attribution changes may not be represented.

## Sources

- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/david-1783-cox/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_John_Watson_Gordon_-_David_Cox,_1783_-_1859._Landscape_painter_-_PG_554_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Watson_Gordon_(1788-1864)_-_David_Cox_(1783%E2%80%931859)_-_1978P185_-_Birmingham_Museums_Trust.jpg