# Abraham Cooper artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/abraham-cooper/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T12:43:54.615Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: British
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Abraham Cooper](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Old_Abraham_Cooper.jpg)
John & Charles Watkins · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Abraham_Cooper.jpg

## About Abraham Cooper

Abraham Cooper (1787–1868) was a British painter best known for animal subjects and battle scenes. Authority records at Wikidata, VIAF, and Getty ULAN align on his identity and life years, helping distinguish him from other people with the same name. His documented subject range places him within nineteenth-century British representational painting, although the collected sources do not establish a formal movement or school. Collectors are most likely to encounter his name on paintings centered on animals, including horse-related imagery, or on battle subjects. VIAF-linked headings include Astley’s Horse and battle pieces, reinforcing those recurring contexts without defining a complete catalogue. Auction attributions should therefore be matched carefully to the authority identity and to the object’s documented subject and medium. This profile does not add unsupported exhibition history, stylistic labels, or biographical details where the available institutional records are too brief.

## Common works and media

The clearest recurring work types are paintings of animals and battle scenes. VIAF-linked headings also point to horse imagery, including Astley’s Horse, and to battle pieces. The collected sources do not provide a reliable basis for listing prints, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, editions, or named series as common categories.

## Market and appraisal context

The source pack supports two broad market groupings: animal-subject paintings and battle paintings. It does not contain lot-level descriptions, realized prices, or a major auction-house biography, so it cannot support a price trend or a claim that one type commands a premium. For appraisal, a candidate should be compared only with auction records assigned to this Abraham Cooper and sharing an appropriate subject category. Appraisily’s public artist page provides the auction-record context for this identity, but each underlying lot requires separate review before serving as a comparable. Authority links improve name matching; they do not authenticate a work or establish its authorship, condition, or provenance.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. This profile separates authority-backed identity facts from market observations that require lot-level verification.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q329878
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/45086944/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500023150
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Cooper
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/abraham-cooper/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Abraham_Cooper.jpg