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Lot Essay
On his return to England from Belgium following the disastrous Revolution of 1830, Cooper was given introductions by one of his patrons in Brussels, the merchant venturer Daniel Wadsworth Coit, to the partners of the London Merchant Banking House of Baring Brothers & Co. Through the senior partners John Baring and Joshua Bates he came to the notice of Thomas Baring, the elder brother of John, also a financier, and noted picture collector.
Thomas Baring, who also purchased Morning by Cooper at the British Institution in 1840 (no. 8), is believed to have been the buyer of Cooper's first Royal Academy exhibit in 1833, Landscape and Cattle which was among the pictures from his collection that passed to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook.
The calf in the left foreground, depicted scratching with its hind leg, is taken from an earlier sketch also utilised for one of a group of five calves in the lithograph published as Plate 17 of Groups of Cattle, Drawn from Nature (Ackermann, 1839; see Westwood, cat. no. 32). The lithograph is signed and dated 1838.
We are grateful to Kenneth Westwood for his help in the preparation of this catalogue entry.
Thomas Baring, who also purchased Morning by Cooper at the British Institution in 1840 (no. 8), is believed to have been the buyer of Cooper's first Royal Academy exhibit in 1833, Landscape and Cattle which was among the pictures from his collection that passed to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook.
The calf in the left foreground, depicted scratching with its hind leg, is taken from an earlier sketch also utilised for one of a group of five calves in the lithograph published as Plate 17 of Groups of Cattle, Drawn from Nature (Ackermann, 1839; see Westwood, cat. no. 32). The lithograph is signed and dated 1838.
We are grateful to Kenneth Westwood for his help in the preparation of this catalogue entry.