William Sidney Cooper

British 1854-1927

William Sidney Cooper was a British landscape artist, best known for his paintings of the countryside around Herne Bay in Kent where he lived with his wife for many years.

William trained with his Great-Uncle Thomas Sidney Cooper at his School of Art in Canterbury and became a successful artist exhibiting at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists (Suffolk Street galleries, London) and the Royal Watercolour Society.

Much of Cooper's landscapes contain cattle (which were his speciality) and also sheep, as in his Great Uncle's work. He died in 1927 and is buried in the churchyard at Eddington, Kent.