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ALEXANDER DAVIS COOPER. 



A LEXANDER DAVIS COOPER, son of 

 •^*- Abraham Cooper, followed, but at a distance, 

 in the footsteps of his father, whose tastes for art 

 and sport he inherited. He is described in Graves' 

 Dictionary as a Landscape artist ; but some of the 

 works exhibited by him at the Royal Academy, 

 and those engraved for the Sporting and New 

 Sporting Magazines show that he could paint 

 animals and sporting scenes with sufficient skill 

 to render his comparative neglect of such subjects 

 matter for regret. Volume xiv. of the latter (1838) 

 contains an engraving by E. Hacker from a picture 

 entitled "Spaniel and Dead Game," which is made 

 the subject of editorial remark: — "The painter of 

 this subject is the son of A. Cooper, R.A., and 

 this, we believe, is the young artist's maiden 

 plate. . . The picture which was exhibited at 

 the Royal Academy last year is very cleverly 

 composed, and the head of the spaniel is, in par- 

 ticular, well painted." In 1841 he painted the 

 portrait of Byron, a famous black and tan spaniel, 

 for which the owner. Baron Lenton, had paid 



