James Doyle on the Exhibition Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean

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On a day like today, English landscape painter David Cox was born

August 29, 1783. David Cox (29 April 1783 - 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. In this image: A Train on a Viaduct by David Cox.