A Bull and Cows in a Landscape

Details

Thomas Sidney Cooper, R.A. (1803-1902)
A Bull and Cows in a Landscape
signed 'T.S.Cooper 1835' (lower left)
oil on canvas
65 x 52 in. (165 x 132 cm.)

Provenance

Exeter University; their sale, Whitton & Laing, Exeter, 11 September 1987, lot 794, (illustrated), from where purchased by the deceased father of the present owners.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1835, no. 365.
Liverpool, Liverpool Academy, 1836, no. 165 (£20).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

Lot Essay

The imposing figure of a bull with two recumbent cows are depicted standing in Whitehall Meadows: the Westgate of Canterbury can be seen in the distance. The size suggests that the picture was probably exhibited, either as Stock, shown at the Liverpool Academy, or the picture Cooper exhibited at the Society of British Artists, 1836, no. 251, entitled A Young Brindle Bull.

We are grateful to Kenneth Westwood for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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