Duncan Elphinstone Cooper b. c.1813

  • Artist (Painter)
Watercolourist and squatter. Resident of Tasmania, Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria. Cooper was a modest artist, bequeathing his 'book of Sketches by John Glover [q.v.]' to the British Museum while undervaluing his own work.
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Name
Duncan Elphinstone Cooper
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Other Occupation
  • Squatter (ANZSIC code: 01)
Birth date
c.1813
Birth place
UK
Death date
22 November 1904
Death place
London, England, UK
Active Period
  • c.1842 - c.1854
Arrival
  • 4 November 1841 (Arrived Melbourne in the barque 'Diamond'.)
Residence
  • Western Australia
  • Sydney, NSW
  • Tasmania
  • 1854 - 1855 England, UK
  • c.4 November 1841 - c.1854 Melbourne, Vic. (Challicum and adjoining Warrapinjoe pastoral runs. )
  • c.1854 - c.22 November 1904 London, England, UK
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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References [<ExternalResource: Brown, P. L. (ed.), 'Clyde Company Papers 3-7', London, England, UK : (1958/1971).>, <ExternalResource: (1987), 'The Challicum Sketch Book', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, 'Challicum Sketch Book', 1842/1853.>, <ExternalResource: Illustrated Australian Magazine.>]