Charlotte Price Phoenix Tower, Chester City Walls

Charlotte Price (1796–1868): Pupil of David Cox OWS

This drawing forms part of a small collection of works that we have for sale by Charlotte Price (1796–1868).

Price was a talented pupil of David Cox Senior (1783–1859). She resided at Harborne near Birmingham, where she appears to have been related to the wealthy industrialist and landowner Theodore Price who lived at The Park. Harborne was at the time a pleasant rural retreat from the city. David Cox retired to Harborne in 1841 and lived there until his death in 1859. He would make regular trips from here to the mountains of North Wales—a landscape that Price documents in the present collection of drawings.

On Charlotte's death, over 2,500 of her drawings were compiled for posterity by her sister Laura. Her sketches, spanning a period of over fifty years, include local subjects at Harborne, as well as documenting her travels in England, Wales, Switzerland, France and Italy. They also include views in Peterborough, Canada where her nephew, Matthew Rolleston, had emigrated in the mid-19th century.