Arthur Bevan Cooper b. 12 August 1840

Also known as A. B. Cooper
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter and surveyor born in England. Resident of Adelaide, South Australia.
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painter and surveyor, was born on 8 December 1840 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire. He was in Adelaide by 1862. On 25 September 1869 he married Harriette Isabel, née Woodcock; they had two daughters. When A.B. Cooper showed a watercolour copy of another exhibit, Dordt , with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1866, the South Australian Advertiser called it 'clever’ and noted that 'its only defect is a want of depth in the tone’. It received a prize. Cooper left Adelaide for England in 1874 but died on the voyage.

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