Biography from Crocker Art Museum Store:
| Painter. Born in Broxwood Court, England on May 4, 1867. After studying in Paris with Laurens, Lefebvre, and Benjamin-Constant, Cox came to San Francisco in 1904 and resided at 1717 Jackson Street with a studio at 1612 Van Ness. He lost many paintings in the 1906 disaster and was active in San Francisco until at least 1914. Sketching trips were made to England and Scotland. Cox died in Alexandria, VA in 1930. Primarily a portrait painter, his sitters included President Warren Harding and Chief Justice William Taft. He also produced historical genre and landscapes from his world travels. Exh: Palace Hotel (SF), 1914. CSL; CD; SF Examiner, 5-1-1914, p.11.
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Biography from AskART:
| Born in England, Walter Cox trained in Paris and then settled in San Francisco in 1904 and painted many landscapes of which the ones completed before 1906 were lost in the earthquake.
By the 1920s, he had moved to New York where he became primarily a portraitist, painting notables of the day such as Warren G. Harding, Chief Justices, and members of the British Nobility.
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Beacon Hill Fine Art |
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