Thomas Sidney Cooper
Thomas Sidney Cooper RA (born September 26, 1803 in Canterbury , † February 7, 1902 in London ) was an English landscape and animal painter , particularly known for his depictions of cattle and sheep.
In his early childhood, Cooper worked in the workshop of a "coach painter" and provided wood and metal parts of carriages and wagons with protective paint. He later worked as a stage painter at times before moving to London in 1823. There he first went to the British Museum to draw and paint, and then went on to study art at the Royal Academy of Arts . Cooper then returned to Canterbury, where he made a living by teaching drawing and selling paintings.
In 1827 Cooper went to Brussels , where Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven was his teacher, and where he perfected his skills as a landscape and animal painter by studying at the Dutch School of the 17th century.
In 1830 Cooper returned to England. In 1833 he was able to present his first pictures in the Royal Academy and from then on he developed a lively exhibition activity, also in other institutes. His landscape and animal pictures, mainly depicting cattle and sheep, were increasingly in demand. Among the best known of his several hundred works are: Drovers crossing Newbigging Muir in a Snowdrift , East Cumberland (1860), The Shepherd's Sabbath (1866), Milking Time in the Meadows (Diploma picture, 1869), and the studies of Bullen: The Monarch of the Meadows (1873) and Separated but not Divorced (1874).
In 1867 Cooper became a member of the Royal Academy. The "Sidney Cooper Art Gallery" set up in the house where he was born in 1865, he left in 1882 to the city of Canterbury. His autobiography was published in 1891 under the title "My Life".
Thomas Sidney Cooper's son, Thomas George Cooper (1857–1896), emulated his father as an animal and landscape painter, but he was unable to achieve comparable successes.
literature
- Dictionary of National Biography on the multimedia CD Infopedia UK, Softkey Multimedia Inc., 1996.
- Marcus Halliwell: Highland Landscapes - Paintings of Scotland in the 19th Century. Garamond Publishers Ltd, London, 1990, ISBN 1-85583-001-9 , p. 66.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cooper, Thomas Sidney |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canterbury |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1902 |
| Place of death | London |