# Portrait of Leonard Cox

- By: Louise Cox (American, 1865 - 1945)
- Date: 1895
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 12 in. (29.8 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Allyn Cox
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=5899)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b90c954a5f8dd4833ee531f25bd92802.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Leonard Cox was one year old when his mother painted this portrait. Leonard later studied at Princeton University. After graduation, he fought in Europe during World War I and became a decorated war hero. His mother received a bronze medal for this painting at the 1900 Paris Exposition, a public triumph that helped establish her reputation as a painter of children.