Alexander Cooper
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Alexander Cooper
(bapt London, 11 Dec 1609; d ?Stockholm, 1658 or later). Brother of (1) Samuel Cooper. He was brought up by his uncle John Hoskins (i). According to Sandrart, he was a pupil of Peter Oliver. Between 1631 and 1633 he was in the Netherlands, working for the exiled court of Frederick V, King of Bohemia, for whom he painted a chain of nine miniatures portraying the King and his family (1632-3; ex-Kaiser Friedrich Mus., Berlin; see Murdoch, p. 121). Sandrart, whom he met in the Netherlands in the 1640s, suggested that Cooper had been working in England for some of the intervening years. He had evolved two distinct manners, a finer style modelled on Hoskins and Oliver, such as in the signed Portrait of an Unknown Man (c. 1635; London, V&A) that is housed in a Schraubthaler (a silver coin setting), and a broader style reminiscent of Samuel Cooper.
Part of the Cooper family
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Joseph Alexander Cooper
Cooper, Joseph Alexander (1823-1910) Union army officer and farmer, born near Cumberland Falls, Kentucky. Cooper commanded volunteer infantry in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and fought at Stones River (1862-63). Cooper was a brigade commander under John M. Schofield in the Atlanta campaign, and played a key role in the defense of Tennessee (1865), defeating invading forces under John B. Hood at Franklin and Nashville.
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Alexander Cooper
Alexander Cooper (December 11, 1609, London - 1660, Stockholm) was an English Baroque miniature painter.
Biography
He was the elder brother of the painter Samuel Cooper. He learned painting from Peter Oliver (painter) and was active in London from 1633 - 1642, whereupon he traveled to The Hague.[1] He is registered there as a member of The Hague Guild of Saint Luke from 1644 - 1646.[1] After a short stay in Amsterdam, he travelled to Sweden in 1646 to work as court painter for Queen regnant Christina of Sweden.[1][2] According to Houbraken he was considered the best portrait miniaturist in watercolors of his time.[2] He succeeded David Beck as official court painter when Beck returned to The Hague.
His Swedish documents declare that he was Jewish, and that his full name was Abraham Alexander Cooper. He had previously been residing in the United Provinces, but on reaching Sweden entered the service of Christina, and continued to be her miniature painter until 1654, when she resigned the crown. Two years later, Cooper was in Denmark, carrying out some commissions for Christian IV of Denmark but in 1657 was back again in Stockholm, where he died in the early part of 1660.
His works are of great rarity, and the chief are a series representing Frederick V, Elector Palatine and Elizabeth of Bohemia as well as their children. Including Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of Bohemia, Princess Palatine, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern and Sophia of the Palatinate. By 1911 these portraits were in the possession of Wilhelm II of Germany. At the same time some very remarkable portraits were owned by Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and others were in the possession of Gustav V of Sweden and various Swedish galleries.
He is probably the same painter as Ioannes Coepers of England well-known at the English court in Cornelis de Bie's book of painters called Het Gulden Cabinet.
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- ^ a b c Alexander Cooper in the RKD
- ^ a b (Dutch) Joan Couper in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Alexander Cooper". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Alexander_Cooper.
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