The London Chatham and Dover Railway

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Thomas George Cooper was based in London and was the son of animal painter Thomas Sidney Cooper RA. He exhibited mainly rustic scenes including sheep and cattle at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and the New Water-Colour Society between 1861 and 1893. Cooper also contributed a number of plates to ‘The Etcher’ and ‘The Portfolio’ between 1882 and 1884. He exhibited a portrait etching of his father at the Royal Academy in 1884 and also produced etchings after a number of his father’s paintings. A reviewer, writing in 1875, commented on Cooper’s work ‘A smack of the father lingers about the son, [but] Mr. Cooper lighted on a pretty spot, he carefully painted it … and then he went and spoilt it all.’

Places

England, Kent

Subjects

railway, train, landscape C19th, tree, cow, sheep, duck, lake, fence, haybale, cottage

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Thomas George Cooper (1836 - 1901)

Title

The London Chatham and Dover Railway

Date

1876

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 81.00 cm, width: 122.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, December 1960

Inscription

Sdbr

Provenance

With Sabin Gallery; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in December 1960

GAC number

5413