David Cox, OWS (British, 1783-1859) Waiting for the ferry signed 'David Cox' (lower left) oil on canvas 35 x 45cm Provenance: Property from a Suffolk country house Footnote: It is possible that the present lot is the same painting that was once recorded in the collection of Edwin Bullock (1802-1870), a friend and patron of the artist. This painting was of the same subject and dimensions. It was exhibited at the Liverpool Academy in 1875 (no. 10, lent by H. W. F. Bolckow, MP) and later appeared at Christie’s sales on 2nd May 1891, lot 253, and on 9th March 1907, lot 25. We are grateful to Professor Stephen Wildman for pointing out the existence of this version. Additionally, the composition in the present lot exists in another version in oil, though with minor variations, which is dated 1845 and inscribed on the reverse ‘Hunsum’s Ferry on the Wye’ (see Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, no. 1885P2493). There is a similar watercolour version of this subject titled Waiting for the Ferry Boat, which was exhibited at the 'Old' Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1835 and is now in the Tate, London (no. 5617).