Windsor Castle from the Great Park

Cox was famed for his landscapes in watercolour on paper; both subject and medium were particularly favoured by the British. In the late 1830s, he began to devote himself to painting in oil. For Cox, sensitive observation of the world revealed the harmony of Nature and Humanity: Windsor Castle appears a natural part of the landscape. Cox was fascinated by the changing skies, and at his most successful in painting the rushing clouds and effects of light that animate the scene.