Large 19th Century English scene of sheep resting along a country path, oil on canvas by Thomas Sidney Cooper. Excellent quality and condition, signed and presented on its original lining and in its original frame. We can quote to fully repair the frame (approx 200). One of a pair we have catalogued for sale.
Provenance: contents of a private estate, Essex, UK
Measurements: 23" x 19" framed approx
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born 26 September 1803, in Canterbury; died 7 February 1902, near Canterbury.
Painter, watercolourist. Landscapes with figures, landscapes, animals.
Thomas Sidney Cooper was first a scenery painter before going to London in 1823. Once there, he worked at the British Museum and the Royal Academy, although he did not start sending his works for exhibition until about 1833. He lived in his birthplace, Canterbury, for a period and was able to sell some of his work. He was married in Brussels where he spent four years between 1827 and 1831. Back in London, he began regularly to send his works for exhibition not only to the Royal Academy but also to the British Institution, the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street and the New Water-Colour Society. In 1882, in Canterbury, he founded the Sidney Cooper Art Gallery. He became a member of the Royal Academy in 1867.
Museum and Gallery Holdings
Birmingham (Mus. and AG): Landscape with Cattle and Sheep; Cattle in a Stream
Blackburn: Cows in the Water; Flock in Winter (watercolour)
Cardiff (Nat. Mus. of Wales): Cattle in Landscape (oil on canvas); Gathering Clouds (oil on canvas)
Eastbourne (Towner AG): Cattle and Sheep (1850, oil on panel)
Glasgow: Canterbury Meadows; Landscape with Cattle; Landscape with a Flock of Sheep
Harrogate (Mercer AG): Cattle and Sheep Watering (1856, oil on canvas); Sunny Summer Evening in the Meadows (1874, oil on canvas)
Leeds (City AG): Landscape with Sheep and Goats (1852, oil on canvas); Cattle in the Meadows(1843, oil on canvas)
Leicester: Cattle in a Landscape
Liverpool: Cows and Sheep; Study of Sheep
London (Tate Collection): Milking Time - Study of a Farm-Yard near Canterbury (1833, oil on canvas); Landscape and Cattle (1854, oil on panel); A Cow and Two Sheep (1860, watercolou)
London (Victoria and Albert Mus.): Scene by a River, Animals; Cows on a River Bank; Sheep; Cattle and Milkmaid; Landscape, Cows; Snowy Landscape, Sheep; Cattle; Three Cows in a Meadow; In the Meadows at Sunset (Valley in Scotland)
London (Wallace Collection): An Evening Scene (1852, oil/panel)
Manchester (City AG): Heat Showers in August (1857, oil on panel)