Forest landscape with shepherd.

Drawing, watercolour, 38 x 55 cm, on cardboard, signed and dated at lower right "David Cox 1815".

Under passe-partout.

David I Cox (1783-1859) is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. Cox exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1805. By 1810 he was elected President of the Associated Artists in Water Colour. In 1812 he was elected as associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colour (the old Water Colour Society). He became a member of the Society in 1813, and exhibited there every year (except 1815 and 1817) until his death. In 1814 he became drawing master for Miss Crouchers' School for Young Ladies in Hereford, which is probably the countryside shown in this lovely drawing.
Prov. Denys G. Wells (181-1973), British painter and member of the Royal Society of British Artists (ms. ownership note on verso). The work was exhibited at the Liverpool Art Club in 1845, and subsequently at a David Cox exhibition in Birmingham in 1890 (old stamps on verso).