| About the artist
Born: 1883
Died: 1974
Alfred Egerton Cooper was a famous portrait painter, one of whose many paintings of Sir Winston Churchill is in the National Portrait Gallery - "Cooper succeeded where many failed: WSC liked all his works." He went to the Royal College of art where he won a prize judged by John Singer Sargant. Sargant was most impressed with Cooper and offered him a job has his studio assistant. This gave him the help his career needed and introduced him to London society and his future clients. He painted into his nineties!
Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel's account of The Churchill Portraits of Alfred Egerton Cooper on the website of The Churchill Centre, Washington, D.C. is at http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=782 and is full of fascinating anecdote and insight.
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| Product type |
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drawing |
| Date of work |
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1920 |
| How we know the date |
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our estimate |
| The last owner of the work |
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acquired from the artist's widow |
| How we know who the artist is |
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the artist's widow |
| How we know the subject |
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| School of painting |
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Modern British |
| Style of painting |
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Representational |
| Approach |
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sketch |
| Dimensions (h x w x d) inches |
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9 x 7 |
| Condition of work |
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very good |
| Recent restoration |
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No known restoration |
| Where exhibited |
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believed never exhibited |
| Quantity available |
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1 |
| Edition of |
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1 |
| Item number |
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738 |
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