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 to Sir Henry Meux, who not only purchased it, but became his friend and patron. He now began studying art by making careful copies of horses from engravings published in the ‘Sporting Magazine.’ These were drawn by Benjamin Marshall, to whom Cooper was introduced by his uncle Davis, the well-known equestrian. Davis wished his nephew to ride at Covent Garden Theatre, then under the management of John Kemble, about 1812–1813. This, however, he declined, but placed himself under Marshall. In 1812 he became a member of the Artists' Fund, and subsequently its chairman. In 1816 he was awarded a premium of 150 guineas by the British Institution for his picture of the ‘Battle of Waterloo.’ In 1817 he was elected as associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1820 a full member of that body for his picture of ‘Marston Moor’ (engraved by John Bromley). He retired in 1866. He died at his residence, Woodbine Cottage, Woodlands, Greenwich, on 24 Dec. 1868, and was buried in Highgate cemetery. In this year he had at the Royal Academy a subject from ‘Don Quixote.’ Cooper's first picture, ‘Tam o' Shanter,’ engraved by J. Rogers, was exhibited at the British Institution in 1814. It was purchased by the Duke of Marlborough. In 1816 Cooper sent to the same gallery ‘Blucher at the Battle of Ligny,’ for which he received from the directors of that institution 150 guineas. The picture passed into the collection of the Earl of Egremont. In 1817 he had seven pictures at the Royal Academy. He now resided at No. 6 New Millman Street, near the Foundling Hospital. Many other pictures followed, among which were ‘Rupert's Standard,’ ‘The First Lord Arundell taking a Turkish Standard at the Battle of Strigonium,’ ‘The Battle of Bosworth Field,’ ‘William III wounded the day before the Battle of the Boyne,’ ‘The Gillies' Departure,’ ‘The Battle of Assaye,’ &c. Two small pictures painted in 1818, viz. ‘A Donkey and Spaniel’ and ‘A Grey Horse at a Stable-door,’ are in the Sheepshanks collection at South Kensington Museum. As a painter of battle pieces Cooper stands pre-eminent. In the British school he held a somewhat analogous position to that which Peter Hess at one time held in Germany, and Horace Vernet occupied for many years in France. It is said, however, that Cooper could never bear to be compared with his French rival. His knowledge of horses was, from his early training, profound. Among the celebrated racehorses of his day he painted and drew ‘Camel,’ ‘Mango,’ ‘Galaba,’ ‘Bloomsbury,’ ‘Pussy,’ ‘Amato,’ ‘Shakespeare,’ ‘Deception,’ ‘Phosphorus,’ and many more. He largely contributed to the ‘New Sporting Magazine.’ There is in the department of prints and drawings, British Museum, a folio volume containing numerous engravings after Cooper, who exhibited, between 1812 and 1869, 407 works: 332 at the Royal Academy, 74 at the British Institution, and one in Suffolk Street.

 COOPER, ALEXANDER (fl. 1630–1660), miniature painter, was elder brother of Samuel Cooper [q. v.], and, like his brother, instructed in the art of miniature-painting by their uncle, John Hoskins. Though he never attained the excellence that his brother did, he was very successful, being a good draughtsman, painting both in oil and water colours. Vertue states that a miniature he saw in the possession of Dr. Mead was painted in the style of the Olivers; and there was a miniature of a lady in the Strawberry Hill collection. He settled for some time in Amsterdam, where he met Joachim Sandrart, the painter and biographer, who narrates that Cooper showed him a great quantity of miniatures of the British court done by himself. He subsequently passed into the service of Queen Christina of Sweden, after which further details of his life are wanting. A miniature of this queen was exhibited at the special exhibition of miniatures in 1865. A portrait of William of Orange was engraved after Cooper by Hondius in 1641. It is stated that there was a picture by him at Burghley House, representing the story of Actæon and Diana. This would point to his having painted in other styles than miniature, and landscapes are also recorded as bearing his name.

 COOPER, ANDREW or ANTHONY (fl. 1660), is best known as the author of ‘Stratologia, or the History of the English Civil Warrs in English Verse,’ London, 1660. The poem, written in lumbering heroics and in behalf of the royalists, contains (in the words of the title-page) ‘a brief account of all fights, most skirmishes, stratagems, and sieges in England, from the very first originall of our late warres till the martyrdom of King Charles the First of blessed Memory.’ The dedication to ‘Conyers Darcy, Lord 