Francis Cox (1916-1992) Oil On Canvas Notre-dame Of Paris Cathedral 1953

View of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, oil on canvas by Francis Cox, British painter born in 1916 and died in 1992.
Signed and dated 1953 lower left, countersigned on the back on the canvas.
Good condition, note some cracking of the paint at the sky level.
Raw wooden frame.
Painting dimensions : 91 X 61 cm.
Frame dimensions : 100 X 69.5 cm.
Francis Cox was a painter of urban subjects, landscapes and beach scenes. Details of his life and work are somewhat limited. He appears to have married in the Ipswich area in 1940. Subsequently, he and his wife Dora lived in South Africa, where his works occasionally appear at auction. They returned to England in February 1947. In 1947 and 1948, he painted beach scenes, notably of Hastings in Sussex. He is known to have exhibited his work later at the famous London dealers Roland, Browse & Delbanco. Over the next thirty years his work became more abstract. Francis Cox had a barge on the Seine for a time, then moved to Corsica and then Italy.