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THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER (1803–1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 82 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SIDNEY See also:COOPER (1803–1902)  , See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Canterbury on the 26th of See also:September 1803 . In very See also:early childhood he showed in many ways the strength of his See also:artistic inclinations, but as the circumstances of his See also:family did not admit of his receiving any systematic training, he began be-fore he was twelve years old to See also:work in the See also:shop of a See also:coach painter . A little later he obtained employment as a See also:scene painter; and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years . But the See also:desire to become an artist continued to See also:influence him, and all his spare moments were given up to See also:drawing and See also:painting from nature . At the See also:age of twenty he went to See also:London, See also:drew for a while in the See also:British Museum, and was admitted as a student of the Royal See also:Academy . He then returned to Canterbury, where he was able to See also:earn a living as a drawing-See also:master and by the See also:sale of sketches and drawings . In 1827 he settled in See also:Brussels; but four years later he returned to London to live, and by showing his first picture at the Royal Academy (1833) began an unprecedentedly prolonged career as an exhibitor . See also:Cooper's name is mainly associated with pictures of See also:cattle or See also:sheep, and the most notable of the many See also:hundred he produced are: " A Summer's See also:Noon " (1836), " A Drover's See also:Halt on the Fells " (1838), " A See also:Group in the Meadows " (1845), " The See also:Half-past One o'See also:Clock See also:Charge at See also:Waterloo " (1847), " The Shepherd's See also:Sabbath " (1866), " The Monarch of the Meadows " (1873), " Separated but not Divorced " (1874), " See also:Isaac's Substitute " (188o), " Pushing off for Tilbury Fort " (1884), " On a See also:Farm in See also:East See also:Kent " (1889), " Return to the Farm, Milking See also:Time " (1897) . He was elected A.R.A. in 1845 and R.A. in 1867 . He presented to his native See also:place, in 1882, the See also:Sidney Cooper See also:Art See also:Gallery, built on the site of the See also:house in which he was born . He wrote his reminiscences, under the See also:title of My See also:Life, in 189o; and died on the 7th of See also:February 1902 .

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