# Astley David Montague Cooper artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T17:28:58.410Z
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## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Astley David Montague Cooper](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/AstleyDavidMiddletonCooper.jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AstleyDavidMiddletonCooper.jpg

## About Astley David Montague Cooper

Astley David Montague Cooper (1856–1924), widely identified as A. D. M. Cooper, was an American painter. The collected biographical source describes his work as spanning Western and Indigenous themes, portraiture, and studies of nude women. Those subjects place his name in collecting contexts ranging from historical Western imagery to figure and portrait painting, although the source pack does not establish a formal movement or school. Identity matching requires care: Getty ULAN uses “Astley David Montague Cooper,” while Wikipedia expands the name as “Astley David Middleton Cooper”; both connect to the shorter A. D. M. Cooper form. Stable authority records from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and RKD help distinguish the artist across catalogs and auction records. Collectors may therefore encounter his works under abbreviated or expanded names. Exact birth and death dates, beyond the authority-supplied years 1856 and 1924, were not available in the collected evidence.

## Common works and media

Works most clearly supported by the collected biography are paintings addressing Western themes, Indigenous subjects, portraiture, and female nude studies. No evidence in the pack establishes prints, editions, sculpture, ceramics, posters, named series, or a formal movement. Auction and appraisal records should retain the exact cataloged medium and subject rather than broadening Cooper’s documented practice beyond these supported categories.

## Market and appraisal context

The collected sources establish Cooper’s identity and documented subject range but do not provide usable major-auction-house commentary, category-level sale analysis, or evidence for specific price drivers. Appraisal research should therefore begin by matching the artist name and its variants, then compare the object only with verified public auction records assigned to the same artist and relevant work type or subject. The Appraisily artist page can combine that identity research with sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when records are available. This source pack does not support a price forecast, trend claim, or assertion that any subject commands a premium.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64006271
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.D.M._Cooper
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500029009
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95860711/
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/104112
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/astley-david-montague-cooper/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AstleyDavidMiddletonCooper.jpg