Large 19th Century English landscape with cattle watering by a stream with a bridge beyond, oil on canvas by Thomas Sidney Cooper. Excellent quality and condition example of the prolific animal and landscape painters work. The area is likely to be in the Canterbury region as was the majority of Copper's work. Signed and dated. Presented in a good gilt frame.
Measurements: 46.5" x 31" framed approx
Artist Biography
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)
Newcastle upon Tyne (Laing AG): On the Downs (1863, oil on panel); Midday Repose (1866, oil on panel); In The Marshes Near Ramsgate, Isle Of Thanet (oil on canvas)
Nottingham: Goats and Kids in a Shed; Cattle in a Landscape, Evening; Mountain Sheep, Morning Mists Lifting
