In the late spring of 1826, Cox traveled to Brussels with his son and brother-in-law. There he met the Hoptons of Canon Frome, friends from Hereford. Leaving his son and brother-in-law to return to England together, Cox went on with the Hoptons to tour Ghent, Antwerp, Dort (Dordrecht), Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leiden, Amsterdam, and Haarlem. Cox’s biographer Nathaniel Neal Solly records that he made many drawings, mostly in graphite pencil, like this one of the early-sixteenth-century Laurens Kerk in Rotterdam. Only a few such drawings have been identified, however.
Text: Yale Center for British Art.
