Public Collections
Several of his works are in Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, having been donated by Joseph Henry Nettlefold, on the condition it opened on Sundays. His work can also be seen at the British Museum, the Tate Gallery, and in Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Oxford and Cambridge. The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight shows a number of Cox's watercolours bought by Lever through James Orrock. Some of them have since been confirmed as forgeries. An exhibition of his work was held at the Yale Center for British Art in the USA in 2008, travelling to Birmingham in 2009.
There are two Blue Plaque memorials commemorating him at 116 Greenfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham, and at 34 Foxley Road, London, SW9. . It can also be seen at the David Cox exhibition in Birmingham.
His pupils included Birmingham architectural artist, Allen Edward Everitt (1824–1882).
A bust of Cox is in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists' gallery.
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