Augustus Henry Fox

Augustus Henry Fox (9 January 1822 – 1895)[4] was an English portrait painter who exhibited three works at the Royal Academy.

[7] Although Fox exhibited at the Royal Academy, little was recorded about him[8] until 2010, when an oil painting signed A. H. Fox, depicting an unidentified bearded man in civilian dress, which had been found discarded in a waste skip, was put up for sale on the BBC television programme Flog It!.

(1874), a commissioning agent and later a Justice of the Peace, who inherited the estate on Thomas Rymer's death (1902) (Farrer W. & Brownbill J.

Fox's work shows T H Rymer as a young, distinguished man seated upright at a desk with documents.

It is unusual in the context of much of Fox's portraiture work in that it shows the sitter in profile, focusing on the youthful distinction of the subject's face and surrounded by an aura.