The English painter Alfred Heaton Cooper was born in the small town of Halliwall in England into a large but poor family. He was one of six children. His parents were simple mill workers. Nevertheless Cooper achieved a good degree and was able to earn his living as an employee at first.
However, this increase in his living conditions was not enough for the young and vivacious Cooper. He was drawn out of the tranquil small town into the big city of London, which was already the most important place for art and culture in England at that time. He quickly decided to study art with George Clausen. Here he learned how to work with oil and watercolours. His fine sense of colour and light opened up the world of landscape painting, which was to become his artistic home.
But despite his good studies and the hustle and bustle of the big city, Cooper longed for more. He finished his studies prematurely and travelled to cities in Europe and Morocco. Fascinated by the rural lifestyle of the Sogne region and a Norwegian woman named Mathilde, who became his wife a little later, he finally settled in Norway. In the north of Norway he finally moved into a permanent studio on the Balestrand Fjord.
But the cold, the darkness and the hard winter gave him a hard time. Once again Cooper moved away only a few years after his arrival in Norway. After years of travelling and searching, he finally returned to his home country, where he stayed for the rest of his life.
Here he believed to have found a market for his works: Tourism was brisk and Cooper profited from it. The motifs of his watercolours often show the beautiful nature of his homeland or dreamy scenes from the Norwegian fjords. The illustrations that Cooper created for several travel guides were also full of vividness. His son William Heaton Cooper took his father as a model and became a landscape painter as well. The family business founded by the Coopers still exists today. The Heaton Cooper Studio in the town of Grasmere is an art gallery and small shop.
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.jpg "Loen Vand and Glacier, Nord Fjord by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Holy Cross Abbey, Thurles, County Tipperary by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Reflections, Kylemore Lough by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Turf Pickers, Connemara by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Cottage by the Sea, Renvyle by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Old Moot Hall, Sudbury, Suffolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Village of Roundstone, County Galway by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Mirror of the Morning Sky, Killery Harbour by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Vik Stav-Kirke, Sogne Fjord by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Dargle, County Wicklow by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1319922).jpg "Denmark: Koldinghus Castle, North Slesvig by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Innisfallen Island, Killarney by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Norman Tower, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Menaun Cliffs, Achill Island by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Abbey Farm, Thetford, Norfolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Fjaerland, Sogne Fjord by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Upper Lake, Killarney by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Limerick Castle by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1486011).jpg "Lake District: Swan Inn, Newby Bridge, Windermere by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Calf of Man by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1507838).jpg "Lake District: The Old Post Office, Loweswater by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Lake District: Wastdalehead and Great Gable, towards evening in autumn by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Killiney Hill and Bay by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Sheepshearing, Esthwaite Hall Farm, from a portfolio of prints from the original watercolours by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Naerdal, from Stalheim, Sogne Fjord by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1486000).jpg "Lake District: A Sudden Shower, Blea Tarn by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1321521).jpg "Denmark: Ribe, A Mediaeval Town in North Slesvig by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The Tannforsen Waterfall, Are by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1500953).jpg "Lake District: Honister Pass and Buttermere by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "The South Gate, Kings Lynn, Norfolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1486001).jpg "Lake District: Blea Tarn and Langdale Pikes by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Rostrevor, County Down by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Walberswick Ferry, Suffolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Stora Sjofallet, Great Lake Falls, Saltoluokta by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1060081).jpg "Clevedon, Near Bristol by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1050989).jpg "The Market Cross, Shepton Mallet by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "A Coming Storm, Bertraghboy Bay by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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.jpg "Windmills on the Thurne, Norfolk by Alfred Heaton Cooper")
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