Early Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803-1902), Animal painter

Animal painter; started career as a coach and scene painter; trained in RA schools; ARA, 1845; RA, 1867; renowned for his animal pictures, particularly of cows, which he derived chiefly from Dutch models; occupied a similar position in England to that of Troyon in France.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.