RICHARD COOPER (the Younger) 1740, Edinburgh – 1814, London The son of a highly successful engraver of the same name who died in 1764, the younger Cooper trained at first under his father in Edinburgh and later in Paris under J.P. Le Bas. In 1761 he moved to London where he worked as both an engraver and draughtsman, becoming drawing-master at Eton College in 1768 (in succession to Alexander Cozens). Three years later he embarked on a Grand Tour of Italy, apparently with one Thomas Merriman, and over the next few years formed close relationships with other British artists working there including the Runciman brothers and Jacob More. In Naples in c.1772-3 he was patronised by the collector and connoisseur Sir William Hamilton. Cooper was back in England by 1778 and for the rest of his life he specialised in Italian views and Italianate subject matter, exhibiting drawings at the Royal Academy from 1778 until 1809 and making landscape etchings. Literature Contemporary exhibition catalogues; John Ingamells (ed.), A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800, New Haven and London, 1997, p. 239; ODNB entry for his father, ‘Richard Cooper the elder (1701-1764)’, by Timothy Clayton and Anita McConnell 3.6.2014 Powell, Cecilia

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There are 1 works by Cooper, Richard (the Younger) (1740-1814) in the Trust's collection:
2011.64.9		artist Cooper, Richard (the Younger) (1740-1814) , Riverside Scene, possibly Italian, c.1770-5, pencil and sepia wash on paper