Dr%20Oliver%20Cox: List of publications

This book features over thirty masterpieces, mainly genre paintings and landscapes, and including jewel-like landscapes by Brueghel and Savery. The collection is housed at the Bute family's Scottish seat, Mount Stuart, on the Isle of Bute.

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716–83) has been called the most famous landscape designer in English history. This paper charts popular and political responses to Brown from 1930 to the present day. It argues that Brown’s tercentenary in 2016 offers an important opportunity to analyse critically the ways in which Brown has become part of the English national psyche. The clues to this rediscovery can be found in the writings of an influential group of interwar and post-war modernist architects and planners, who also provide clues as to how Brown’s relevance can endure into the twenty-first century.

First published to accompany the exhibition, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 14 March-7 June 2015, Holburne Museum, Bath, 27 June-4 October 2015, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, 22 October 2015-13 February 2016

King Alfred’s Castle, constructed for the Yorkshire merchant Jeremiah Dixon in the summer of 1769, is an important example of the politicisation of the landscape in a contested decade. This is the first detailed study of the Gothic folly, which situates this mercantile intervention into landscape gardening within its provincial and national contexts.