Biography from AskART:
| Washington Bogart Cooper made at least one painting trip along the Mississippi River to Natchez, Mississippi, and New Orleans in 1838-39. Known as an itinerant portrait painter, Cooper worked in Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, Tennessee, 1858. He also visited Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and New York City, in 1841-42. His home with his wife and three children was Nashville, Tennessee.
His younger brother, William Brown Cooper was also a portrait painter, they are often confused as they both were listed in directories and signed their work as "W.B. Cooper". They even collaborated on a project for the Tennessee Historical Society, completing portraits for every Tennessee governor in the 1850s.
Source:
Groce & Wallace, "The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America"
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
Note from Dana Beichert, May 2004 |
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