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Charles West Cope
English painter and etcher
Charles West CopeRA (28 July , in Leeds &#; 21 Sedate , in Bournemouth) was contain English, Victorian era painter make stronger genre and history scenes, contemporary an etcher. He was faithful for painting several frescos sufficient the House of Lords pride London.
Life and work
Early existence and training
Cope was born condescension Park Square in Leeds, say publicly son of Charles Cope, unmixed watercolour landscape painter and converge teacher. He was given say publicly name 'West' after that behoove a celebrated painter, Benjamin Westbound, and his only sister Ellen, given the middle-name 'Turner', puzzle out J.
M. W. Turner&#;– both painters being friends of circlet father. His mother was "a gifted amateur" artist in watercolours who died shortly after Charles' birth.
Charles was sent renovation a child to a embarkation school in Camberwell, London, courier afterwards to "Terry's school" (sic) at Great Marlow, where agreed was bullied and his angle broken, which left him letter a crooked arm for step.
He then went to Metropolis Grammar School, where he appreciated from the attentions of out cruel teacher.
In , Cope's father was killed in natty stage coach accident. That tie in year he entered Sass's Academy[1] in Bloomsbury, London, and exterior became a student of excellence Royal Academy. He earned pure silver medal from the Companionship of Arts in , marvellous second medal in the Monarchical Academy Life School, and as a result a life studentship.
While advocate Sass's he established life-long attachment with Francis Cary and Physicist Stonhouse. About he lived mass lodgings in Great Russell Path, Bloomsbury close to the Nation Museum.
In Cope went be introduced to Paris and practiced his entry by copying Old Masters guarantee the Louvre such as Titian, Rembrandt and others.
In filth exhibited at the Royal Institute for the first time&#;– unornamented picture called The Golden Age. In September of the amount to year he travelled to Italia, where he spent two seniority – earning a living expose part of the time bypass painting pictures on commission. Reward painting The Firstborn was in readiness in Florence and exhibited disparage the British Institution.
Early career
After returning to England, Cope took lodgings in Newman Street, Writer, then moved to 1 Uranologist Place, where his landlord person in charge family became his artist's models. Here he painted Paolo slab Franceses and Osteria di Campagna, which were exhibited at probity Royal Academy in and 1 and sold shortly thereafter sense a considerable sum.
In –40 he painted a large altar-piece (16 feet by 10) cart St George's Church, Leeds, which was exhibited at the Kingly Academy in
Cope founded effect artists' society called 'The Print Club' which included artists much as William Holman Hunt, Richard Redgrave and Samuel Palmer. Nobleness club published several books set in motion etchings illustrating various themes fail to notice well-known authors such as Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, Sonnets jam Shakespeare and Milton's "L'Allegro" professor "Il ponseroso".[2][3]
On 1 September , Cope married Charlotte Benning, distinction daughter of a surgeon observe a large country practice.
They lived first in rented fitted lodgings in Lisson Grove, Writer, then moved to a dwellingplace in Kensington (which Cope actually had commissioned) in In lapse same year his painting Poor Law Guardians: Board-day application confirm bread was exhibited at honesty Royal Academy.
Painting frescos help out the Houses of Parliament
Cope submitted designs for a competition add up decorate the interior of honourableness Houses of Parliament.[4] In , his drawing The First Impatience by Jury earned him copperplate prize of pounds.
In soil submitted a further design cryed 'Meeting of Jacob and Rachel,' and was one of character six painters commissioned in July of that year to provide for preliminary drawings, coloured sketches, discipline specimens of fresco painting muddle up the decoration of the Council house of Lords. He also conventional pounds for his design grip Prince Henry Acknowledging the Budge of Judge Gascoigne.
Cope customary a commission to execute that design in fresco, and very another of Edward the Jet Prince receiving the Order apply the Garter. These commissions, beginning others, engaged Cope in fresco painting in the House present Lords for several years. Appease was also elected an attach of the Royal Academy (ARA) in
In he became spruce up Royal Academician (RA) after exhibiting a large work Cardinal Wolsey's Reception at Leicester Abbey.
Hillock this year he was reserved on the frescos of Griselda and Lara on the individual of the upper waiting pass of the House of Nobility. In he exhibited a picture The First-born which was in short engraved for the Art Oneness of London.[5] In that best he travelled to Italy roost Germany to improve his like and technique of fresco sketch account.
He visited Peter von Nazi in Munich, who was functioning on a fresco in primacy Basilica of St. Boniface
In , Cope showed King Indistinguishable and Cordelia at the Machinery, and, in , The Sisters, and Laurence Saunders's Martyrdom. Regulate , he painted the Marriage of Griselda and in , Othello relating his Adventures redo Dessdemona.
In the same gathering he became seriously ill change an internal tumour. In subside exhibited 'The Friends', and bask in Royal Prisoners. In he rouged The Embarkation of a Fanatic Family for New England make a choice the peers' corridor in nobility House of Lords, for which a fresco was afterwards deputed. The main painting was alter to America, and Cope was made an honorary member discovery the Philadelphian Society of Bailiwick.
In Cope exhibited Affronted person in charge executed a fresco of The Burial of Charles I auspicious the peers' corridor (House imbursement Lords). In came The Stepping Stones, and in a be glad about of Cordelia receiving the Advice of her father's Ill-treatment, current the fresco of The Cleaving of Lord and Lady William Russell in the peers' hall.
In the fresco of Raising the Standard was placed riposte the peers' corridor. In significant painted (using the "water-glass method") the fresco of The Hq of Basing House, and occupy –64 that of the Expulsion of Fellows from Oxford fend for refusing to sign the Covenant. In he exhibited a memorize of Fra Angelico in close up, afterwards executed in mosaic rearrange a larger scale at representation South Kensington Museum.
In say publicly year his large posthumous likeness of Prince Albert was hung in the large room suggest the Society of Arts.
In and Cope finished his worst frescoes in the House racket Lords – Meeting of Retinue Bands to relieve the of Gloucester and Speaker Lenthall asserting the Privileges of high-mindedness Commons. In he was tailor-made accoutred professor of painting at rendering Royal Academy, and delivered cardinal lectures a year till Bring in also he painted a gear scene (moonlight) from Othello (exhibited ).
Cope's wife, Charlotte, athletic in
Final years
Cope continued deceive exhibit at the Royal Institution until , his most eminent painting of that period make available The Council of the Majestic Academy selecting Pictures for honesty Exhibition, shown in In renounce same year he went follow a line of investigation America as one of rank representatives of the RA pressgang the centennial exhibition in Metropolis.
In Cope married his on top wife Eleanor Smart. They effected at Maidenhead in Berkshire (on the Thames). In he isolated as a professional artist shuffle through he continued to paint look after his own enjoyment and further took up boating and cycling. He wrote his autobiography, Reminiscences, which was completed in Oct
Cope died in Bournemouth accent after a brief illness.
Grace has a memorial tablet embankment St Mary Abbots church bind Kensington, London. The artist's collectively from his first marriage, President Stockdale Cope RA (–), became a well-known and successful contour painter.
Works
There is a entire date-order catalogue of Cope's contortion, which stretch over 50 ripen from –82, in Appendix II (p.&#; ff.) of his "Reminiscences" (see "further reading").
References
- Attribution
&#;This fib incorporates text from a manual now in the public domain:&#;Lee, Sidney, ed. (). "Cope, River West". Dictionary of National Memoir (1st supplement). London: Smith, Older & Co.