A son of Octar H. Copson, a fruit painter for Royal Worcester porcelain, Arthur Paul was born in 1881, in Worcester, England. He immigrated in 1895 to the USA, lived in Grand Rapids, MI, then Wyoming, MI; then traveled to France, England, Montreal and Quebec. He painted in all of these locations and studied at the Julian Academy in Paris.
By 1900, he was decorating furniture at Oriel Cabinet Company, a Grand Rapids fine cabinets manufacturer. His father was the art di (showing 500 of 1511 characters). |
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