Alfred Cooper Winston Churchill & Royal Academy Artist Pastel Portrait of Nude C1940s

Alfred Egerton Cooper (1883 - 1974), acclaimed and listed Royal Academy portrait artist, large pastel portrait of nude female by Royal Academy artist in its original gold gilt wood frame, glazed, c.1940s.

Framed size 82cm x 66.5cm

Canvas 63cm x 48.5cm

Alfred Egerton Cooper was an internationally acclaimed portraitist who also painted landscapes, coastal and harbor views of Great Britain and horse racing scenes. His style emphasized deep realism, and his glittering career hinged on the glamour he imparted to European royalty, Buckingham Palace, the British Parliament and rich and powerful public figures. Ambitious and technically skilled, he fulfilled countless royal commissions and had some of the most powerful and notable people in Britain sit for portraits.

Alfred Egerton Cooper was born in 1883 in Tettenhall, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. Showing early artistic leanings, he studied at Bilston School of Art and on a scholarship at London's Royal College of Art, from which he graduated in 1911. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1914. At the age of 18, he exhibited for the first of 40 times at the Royal Academy.

During World War I, Cooper served in the well-known 28th County of London Volunteer Regiment, the Artists Rifles, and his sight in one eye was damaged by chlorine gas. At the end of the war, he was made an official artist of the Royal Air Force, and he became an expert in the art and technique of large-scale aerial camouflage and sketching and painting landscapes from the air. Some of his works are now in the Royal Air Force Museum and London's Imperial War Museum.

Cooper's career continued to develop as he became known for both portraits and landscapes. He exhibited his work in Paris and London, and in 1921, his painting London was a notable feature of the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. Three years later, he won an Honorable Mention at the Paris Salon. He also exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours and Goupil Gallery. In 1940, he painted King George VI, and his 1943 portrait of Winston Churchill was reproduced as a poster intended to rally the English people during World War II.

Cooper made annual excursions to the American midwest in the 1960s. He died in 1974.

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Condition: Ready to hang. Slight wear to frame.

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