(b Cossey, nr Norwich, 17 March 1794; d Leyton, Essex, 28 Feb 1849). English engraver. His father was steward to Lord Stafford, and his life was dominated by an interest in agriculture and floriculture. He judged for the Royal Horticultural Society and drew all the illustrations for The Florist. Charles Hodgson ( fl 1802-25) of Norwich taught him drawing; the engraver William Camden Edwards (1777-1855) encouraged him to take up engraving. Fox later assisted the painter John Burnet in engravings after Sir David Wilkie; his chief work after this artist was The Queen's First Council (1846-7). Several plates after Wilkie were done for Robert Cadell's edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels (1830) and the illustrations to James Stark's Scenery of the Rivers of Norfolk (London, 1834). Among his engraved portraits are Bishop Milner (1822) after Georges Antoine Keman (1765-1830), James Hogg in Hogg's Altrive Tales (1832), William Camden Edwards and John Burnet after Stephen Poyntz Denning (1795-1864). In 1845 Henry Graves published Fox's engraving of The Attack after William Henry Hunt (c. 1834; priv. col., see J. Witt: William Henry Hunt (London, 1982), pl. 499). Also in 1845, he was reported to have received 1100 guineas for engraving the Flight Interrupted (1815-16; London, V&A) after William Mulready for the Royal Irish Art Union, but it was unfinished at his death.
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