Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 12

Thomas Sidney Cooper
Oil on canvas : Cattle near the cliffs of Herne Bay KENT by Thomas Syndey Cooper

About the Item

Thomas Sidney Cooper was one of the foremost animal painters of the Victorian period. He was born in Canterbury, Kent, and as a small child he began to show strong artistic inclinations, but the circumstances of his family did not allow him to receive any systematic training. By the time he was twelve years old, he was working in the shop of a coach painter. Later he obtained a job as a scene painter, and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years. He still felt a strong desire to become an artist, and all his spare moments were spent drawing and 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. Subsequently, he 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 and married before taking up a position as a teacher in Brussels in 1829. There he befriended Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, the great Belgian animal painter, who greatly influenced his style. He was also influenced by the 17th Century Dutch School. Because of the Belgian Revolution, he returned to London where he settled and first exhibited at Suffolk Street in 1833. He exhibited forty-eight pictures at the British Institution between 1833 and 1863. ‘Landscape and Cattle’, Royal Academy 1833, was shown until 1902 without a break - a record for a continuous exhibit at the Royal Academy. Sheep and cattle were his most frequent subjects, although he did paint a few figurative subjects. Cooper collaborated between 1847 and 1870 with Frederick Richard Lee R.A. on several paintings, Lee undertaking the landscapes, and Cooper adding animals to complete the scene. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy (ARA) in 1845 and Royal Academician (RA) on 22 June 1867. After about 1870 Cooper’s commissions were so constant and lucrative that he was tempted to yield to facile repetition of his favourite themes. He was a great philanthropist in Canterbury, and used some of his wealth to distribute bread and coal to the poor at Christmas. Most notably in 1882 he developed his private art lessons into a full-fledged art school in Canterbury, located at his home and studio in St Peter's Street. Originally called the Canterbury Sidney Cooper School of Art, Cooper's art school is still in existence, although it is now called differently. The quality and competence of his style began to decline during the late 1890s by which time he was an old man. His studio sale at Christie’s lasted three days from 12 to 15 April 1902. Source Wikipedia
More From This SellerView All
  • Washerwomen by the river, oil on canvas by Karl Girardet
    Located in Gent, VOV
    This painting is part of a series of paintings Girardet made of washerwomen by the river. Upon their presentation they had a considerable success, which endures till now. In 2008 another painting of this series was sold at Christie's . Karl Girardet was born in 1813 in Le Locle, which at the time was part of France but is now part of Switzerland. Girardet lived and worked most of his life in Paris. After beginning his career as a painter of landscapes, he became a well-known history painter. As a confidant of the French king Louis Philippe I...
    Category

    Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil, ABS

  • Baisch, Hermann 1846–1894: Mountain hut in Tyrol
    By Hermann Baisch
    Located in Gent, VOV
    Hermann Baisch began his career in his father's lithography workshop. When he moved to Stuttgart, he became acquainted with local artists and enrolled at the Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts. He made study trips in 1868 and 69 to Paris and Munich. At the Musée du Louvre, he studied the Dutch painters Paulus Potter and Albert Cuyp. Shaped by the influences of Théodore Rousseau, Charles-François Daubigny, Constant Troyon, Jules Dupré and the landscape painting of the Barbizon school, he went to Munich in 1869 to study with Adolf Lier...
    Category

    19th Century Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Winter landscape, oil on canvas by Carl Schaette
    Located in Gent, VOV
    Magnificent oil on canvas painting of a winter scene by German artist Carl Schaette. Signed lower right "Schaette, Muenchen". The condition of the painting is very good. The painting...
    Category

    20th Century Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • River landscape with mill, 1839 by Per Wickenberg (1812 - 1846)
    Located in Gent, VOV
    River landscape with mill, 1839 Dimensions: 51 x 70 cm (canvas) Oil on canvas (original canvas), Signed and dated lower left Canvas by Legendre Wi...
    Category

    19th Century Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Shepherdess at the edge of the forest oil on canvas by Louis Robbe
    Located in Gent, VOV
    "Robbe Louis, outdoor animal painter ROBBE Louis Born in Courtrai on November 17, 1806, died in Brussels on May 2, 1887. Student of Eugène Verboeckchoven and Jean-Baptiste De Jonghe....
    Category

    19th Century Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • British school Sunset Oil on canvas
    Located in Gent, VOV
    "Evening Sky On A Vast Moor." British school Second half of the 19th century. A very powerful and precise painting of a sunset in a landscape of moors with umbrella pines. The in...
    Category

    19th Century Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

You May Also Like
  • Large Italian Mountain Landscape Painting by Andreas Marko
    By Andreas Marko
    Located in Rochester, NY
    A monumental Italian landscape oil painting. "Apuan Mountains" of Italy (The Italian Alps) Shepherds in the mountains with the village of Seravezza below. Painted by Andreas Marko...
    Category

    19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Cedaring V
    Located in Zürich, ZH
    Angela Lyn was born in Windsor, England in 1955 to a Chinese father and an English mother. In 1968 her family emigrated to the USA. In 1972 she traveled to Taiwan to explore her Asi...
    Category

    2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Old Farmhouse, 1935
    Located in Franklin, MI
    A fine example of the magic realism of this Detroit artist whose work is included in the Whitney Museum of Art
    Category

    1930s Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Oil

  • Ship Leaving the Bay at Sunrise French Seascape 18th century Rococo Oil Painting
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Attributed Charles François Grenier de Lacroix or Charles - François Lacroix de Marseille (1700 - 1782) as signed lower left on the stone “Lacroix”. The scene of the departure of nobles on a ship, somewhere among the Mediterranean landscapes at sunrise. Lacroix's sense of color and attention to detail are particularly impressive: the sea is calm, the sun is rising and as a soft pink hue begins to emerge in the clouds, the morning haze has not yet cleared and the air is clear and clean, large ship...
    Category

    Late 18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Wood, Oil

  • German Baroque landscape Settlement near lake 18th century Oil painting Signed
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Signed lower right for Johann Christian Vollerdt (1708 - 1769). The beauty of baroque scenery is visible in painting, an excellent perspective with striking effects of chiaroscuro. This distinguishes the work of German painters of the 18th century. In their paintings, they exaggerate nature a bit and go visually beyond the borders of the canvas. With the exception of one drawing (“River landscape in the Dutch style”), only paintings by Vollerdt are known at the moment, exclusively miniature river landscapes, which were very popular at the time. His earliest surviving works date from 1738, the latest from 1769. Oil painting on canvas, framed. Size app.: 34.5 x 43.2 cm (roughly 13.6 x 17 in) and nice original frame ca 46.5 by 55.5 cm (roughly 18.3 x 22 in). Very Good condition, usage age wear losses on the edges mostly; restorations, retouches; edge of canvas relined. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 2,05 kg is going to measure some 4 kg volume weight packed for shipment. Vollerdt initially received training in the private school of the copper engraver Paul Christian Zinck in Leipzig. After 1738 he began his apprenticeship with Johann Alexander Thiele in Dresden. Initially, he worked as a supraport painter. So he is probably the author of the 31 over-portals and panneaus in Oberlichtenau Castle, which Heinrich Graf von Brühl acquired in 1744, of which, however, only those in the garden hall have survived. From 1758 to 1769 V. painted a multitude of such landscapes, often pairs of pictures...
    Category

    18th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Wood, Oil

  • Spring Thaw Landscape Oil Painting 1901 Swedish Artist by Ankarcrona
    Located in Stockholm, SE
    Signature bottom left - Edvard Alexander (Alexis) Ankarcrona (1825 - 1901), was a Swedish painter and military (this is one of the last works of the artist!). This artwork perfectly ...
    Category

    Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings

    Materials

    Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Recently Viewed

View All