A framed painting by Walter I. Cox entitled "By the Sea".

Walter I Cox (1867 - 1930) was an english born painter who spent most of his artist productive years in the United States. Born in England, Walter Cox trained in Paris and then settled in San Francisco in 1904 and painted many landscapes of which the ones completed before 1906 were lost in the earthquake. By the 1920s, he had moved to New York where he became primarily a portraitist, painting notables of the day such as Warren G. Harding, Chief Justices, and members of the British Nobility.