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English painter (–)

Thomas Sidney CooperCVORA (26 September &#;&#; 7 February ) was an English landscape painter from Canterbury, noted for his images of cattle and farm animals.^[1]

Early life

Thomas Sidney Cooper was born in St Peter's Street in Canterbury, Kent,^[2] and baptised at St Peter's Church.^[3] As a small child he began to show strong artistic talent, but his family had little money (his father had deserted the family when the boy was five) and could not pay for any tuition, or even for paper and pencils. Indeed, to help support the family, by the time he was twelve years old he was working as a coach painter, then later as a scenery painter with a travelling theatre company, and he alternated between these two occupations for about eight years. He still had a driving desire to become an artist, and all his spare moments were spent drawing and painting from nature. At the age of twenty he went to Lond