COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (18031902)

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COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (18031902) , English painter, was born at Canterbury on the 26th of September 1803. In very early childhood he showed in many ways the strength of his artistic inclinations, but as the circumstances of his family did not admit of his receiving any systematic training, he began be-fore he was twelve years old to

work

WORK

in the shop of a coach painter. A little later he obtained employment as a scene painter; and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years. But the desire to become an artist continued to influence him, and all his spare moments were given up to drawing and

painting

PAINTING

from nature. At the age of twenty he went to London, drew for a while in the British Museum, and was admitted as a student of the Royal

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

. He then returned to Canterbury, where he was able to earn a living as a drawing-master and by the sale of sketches and drawings. In 1827 he settled in Brussels; but four years later he returned to London to live, and by showing his first picture at the Royal

Academy

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ACADEMY, ROYAL

(1833) began an unprecedentedly prolonged career as an exhibitor. Cooper's name is mainly associated with pictures of cattle or sheep, and the most notable of the many hundred he produced are: " A Summer's

Noon

NOON

" (1836), " A Drover's

Halt

HALT

on the Fells " (1838), " A Group in the Meadows " (1845), " The Half-past One o'

Clock

CLOCK

Charge at Waterloo " (1847), " The Shepherd's

Sabbath

SABBATH

" (1866), " The Monarch of the Meadows " (1873), " Separated but not Divorced " (1874), " Isaac's Substitute " (188o), " Pushing off for Tilbury Fort " (1884), " On a Farm in

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Kent " (1889), " Return to the Farm, Milking Time " (1897). He was elected A.R.A. in 1845 and R.A. in 1867. He presented to his native place, in 1882, the Sidney Cooper Art Gallery, built on the site of the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

in which he was born. He wrote his reminiscences, under the title of My Life, in 189o; and died on the 7th of February 1902.

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