The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 03 May 1851. To the Old Water Colour Exhibition. I was delighted with it. Copley Fielding, David Cox (age 68), W. Hunt and others have some exquisite works.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 05 Aug 1851. (at Bettws-y-Coed [Map]). While sketching, David Cox (age 68) came and shook hands with me. He has put up here (the "Royal Oak") After dinner I made an evening sketch on grey wrapping-up paper. David Cox (age 68) saw it and approved.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 06 Aug 1851. Breakfast with Mr. Roberts and Mr. Cox (age 68). After dinner strolled out with them, and the former pointed out to me some fine subjects for painting.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 10 Aug 1851. (Sunday). Met Mr. Cox (age 68) (and Mr. D'Egville M as with him), who took me some way along the road down to the Llegwy to show me a subject. I stopped to listen to some simple and moving singing, in the Welsh Chapel. Mr. Cox (age 68) uses cobalt for blue sky, French blue and black for shadows of distant ones and black for do. of those at higher angle, cobalt and light red for distance, indigo, gamboge and purple for lake middle distance, brown-pink is merged into foregrounds. He uses Prussian blue in bright greens.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 16 Aug 1851. Mr. Roberts told me some odd tales about Turner and his picture selling; about Cotman, whom he knew, and Crome. He said it was a rule not to have strong colour in foreground or distance, but in middle distance. Mr. Cox (age 68) uses purple lake and gamboge for foliage in middle distance, and indigo gamboge and burnt sienna for do. in foreground.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 26 Aug 1851. Too wet to go out. Mr. Cox (age 68) with the greatest kindness gave Mr. Back and myself a lesson in water-colour painting, explaining to us by working two drawings before us, and instructing us in the workings and wherefore his system of gradations. We cast lots for the drawings afterwards on Mr. Cox's (age 68) proposition. Mr. B. got the prettiest, an idea of Beeston Castle [Map], with a beautiful blue distance and white clouds near horizon. Mine is a mountain subject with flat ground in mid-distance, and a bridge and tree in foreground.

The Diary of George Price Boyce 1851. 27 Aug 1851. August 27. Mr. Cox (age 68) returned from Capel Curig with 4 water colour sketches of rock bits, one on the ½ sheet of imperial which I gave him very fine. He affixed his name in the evening to the sketch he made for me yesterday, in the presence of Messrs. Poole, Bond, Roberts, Hoyle, Back and myself. Completed drawing from Church, which Mr. Cox (age 68) said looked like a Pre-Raffaelite drawing.