John Knox (1778–1845)

• Was a Scottish landscape artist.
• Knox was born the son of John Knox in 1778.
• His family moved to Glasgow in 1799.
• He is thought to be the "John Knox Jr, portrait painter" mentioned in the 1810 Glasgow Post Office Directory living at 34 Miller Street.
• Knox's father was a yarn or thread merchant, with a business, John Knox & Sons in Glasgow.
• His wife was Sarah and they had at least one son, Thomas.
• Through Sarah's family connections with Keswick in the Lake District, they moved there in 1840 when Knox would have been aged 62.
• Thereafter, Knox seems to have produced little in the way of further paintings.
• Between 1809 and 1814 Knox created six of Panoramas, which were variously displayed in Glasgow, Edinburgh, London and Dublin.
• He did exhibit a number of times in exhibitions, including several times at the Royal Academy in London, for example in 1829 he exhibited a view of Inveraray Castle (No 376) and 'No 88 View in the Trosacks' and again in 1832 and 1835.
• He also exhibited at the Glasgow Dilettante Society in 1831. 

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