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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Related collections
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC (collected in)
  • Melbourne University, Vic. (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • untitled (collected in)
  • Crowther Library, State Library of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • City of Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC (collected in)
  • Melbourne University, Vic. (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Australian National Gallery, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)