Abraham Cooper
Elis At Doncaster Ridden By John Day With His Van In The Background
Abraham Cooper RA (1787–1868), was an English animal and battle painter.
Life
The son of a tobacconist, he was born in Greenwich, London.[1] At the age of thirteen he became an employee at Astley's Amphitheatre, and was afterwards groomed in the service of Sir Henry Meux . When he was twenty-two, wishing to possess a portrait of a favorite horse under his care, he bought a manual of painting, learned something of the use of oil-colours, and painted the picture on a canvas hung against the stable wall. His master bought it and encouraged him to continue in his efforts. He accordingly began to copy prints of horses, and was introduced to Benjamin Marshall, the animal painter, who took him into his studio, and seems to have introduced him to the Sporting Magazine, an illustrated periodical to which he was himself a contributor.
In 1814 he exhibited his Tam O'Shanter, and in 1816 he won a prize for his Battle of Ligny. In 1817 he exhibited his Battle of Marston Moor and was made associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1820 he was elected Academician. Cooper, although ill-educated, was a clever and conscientious artist; his colouring was somewhat flat and dead, but he was a master of equine portraiture and anatomy, and had some antiquarian knowledge. He had a special fondness for Cavalier and Roundhead pictures.
Paintings
Bosworth Field (1825, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts)
The Death of Sir Francis Russell, who was treacherously slain at a Border Meeting, July 16, 1585 (1827, Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey)
Battle of Zutphen, 1586 )1826 - Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey)
The Battle of Marston Moor (1819 - Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston)
The Heroic Conduct of Cromwell at Marston Moor (1821 - Chequers House, Buckinghamshire)
Cromwell leading his Cavalry into Battle (Cambridgeshire Museums, at Cromwell House, Huntingdon)
Battle Scene (attr.) (Guildhall Art Gallery)
Wellington's First Great Victory - The Battle of Assaye (The Light Dragoons)
The Battle of Ligny (Lord Egremont, Petworth House)
References
"Fighting for the Standard at the Battle of Marston Moor", Metropolitan Museum of Art collections. Retrieved 10 June 2015
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cooper, Abraham". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Works about
Harrington, Peter (1993). British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. London: Greenhill. ISBN 1853671576
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