David
Cox Jr.
The Shadow of a Legacy To understand David Cox Jr., one must first navigate the heavy shadow cast by his father. While the elder Cox established himself as a force in English watercolour, the younger artist operated within a distinct, albeit derivative, framework. Born in …
A portrait built from David Cox Jr.'s own colours
Every 24 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.