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Thomas Sidney Cooper - Wikipedia.
Dictionary of National Biography, supplement/Cooper, Thomas Sidney
&#;COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (–), animal painter, was born in St. Peter's Street, Canterbury, on 26 Sept.
Thomas sidney cooper biography of albert
His mother was left to bring up her family of two sons and three daughters entirely by her own exertions. After a, very slender school education Cooper was engaged in by a coach-builder, the uncle of a school friend named William Burgess, to learn and practise coach - painting.
As a child he was seen by George Cattermole [q. v.] sketching the cathedral on his slate, and received from him a gift of the first pencils and paper that he used. His sketching of the cathedral was also noticed by Archbishop Manners Sutton, who encouraged him and gave him his first commissions for drawings.
He was also helped and instructed by a scene-painter, Doyle, who had noticed him at his work; and as the coach-builder no longer wanted his services, he took seriously to scene-painting, being engaged by the manager of a company which