Thomas Sidney Cooper (BRITISH 1803-1902), REPOSING ON GOD'S ACRE, TOGETHER WITH A SKETCH (2)

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THOMAS SIDNEY COOPER (BRITISH 1803-1902)REPOSING ON GOD'S ACREOil on canvasSigned and dated '1875' (lower right)122.5 x 164cm (48 x 64½in.)Together with a sketch for 'Reposing on God's Acre', pencil, signed and dated '1874' (lower centre),12.5 x 8.5cm (2)Provenance:i) Charles Seeley MP (1803-1887), Furzedown Park, SurreyHis sale, Christie's, London, 29 May 1886, lot 101 (150 guineas, to McLean)Sale, Christie's, London, 29 January 1887, lot 104 (140 guineas, to Heath)Lawrence Whittaker, Accrington, LancashireBy whom presented to the Corporation of Accrington, in 1908Transferred to Haworth Art Gallery, Haworth Park, Accrington, in 1921By whose Trustees sold, Phillip's, London, 22 June 1970, lot 139Where acquired by the Forbes Magazine Collection, New YorkTheir sale, Christie's, London, The Forbes Collection of Victorian Pictures and Works of Art, 19 February 2003, lot 299Private collectionii) The Fine Art Society, LondonExhibited:i) London, Royal Academy, 1875, no. 246Accrington, Haworth Art Gallery, opening exhibition, 1921, no. 65 (lent by Lawrence Whittaker in 1908)New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton, Princeton University; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Louisville, The Allen House, The Royal Academy (1837-1901) revisited: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, 1975-1976, no. 7Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum; New York, The Forbes Magazine Galleries; Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art; Williamstown, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute; Naples, Florida, Naples Fine Art Center Galleries; Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts; Leeds, Leeds Art Gallery, England, Virtue Rewarded: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, 1988-1990, no. 47Provo, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Masterworks of Victorian Art from the Collection of John H. Schaeffer, 15 February - 16 August 2008Springville, Springville Museum of Art, The John H. Schaeffer Collection of Victorian and European Art, 26 August 2009 - 28 February 2010Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, 20 May - 29 August 2010, no. 16Literature:i) 'Mr T. Sidney Cooper's pictures' in Kentish Gazette, 6 April 1875, p. 5H. Blackburn (ed.), Academy Notes, London 1875, p. 24Gardeners' Chronicle, 8 May 1875, p. 590;Gardeners' Chronicle, 8 May 1875, p. 590'Royal Academy Exhibition - fourth notice' in Illustrated London News, vol. 66, no. 1867, 22 May 1875, p. 486C. Clement and L. Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century, London 1879, vol. I, p. 154T.S. Cooper, My Life, London 1890, vol. II, pp. ix, 190 and 319Catalogue of Oil Paintings, Water-Colour Drawings, etc., exh. cat., Accrington 1921, n.p., no. 65M. Freeman, 'Kinetic Art in the Forbes Collection', in New Jersey Music & Arts, November 1974, reproduced p. 35C. Forbes, The Royal Academy (1837-1901) revisited: Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, exh. cat., New York 1975, pp. 32-33, no. 7, reproduced p. 33S. Sartin, Thomas Sidney Cooper, C.V.O., R.A., Leigh-on-Sea 1976, p. 68, no. 215B. Stewart, Thomas Sidney Cooper of Canterbury Kent, Rainham 1983, reproduced p. 40S.P. Casteras, Virtue Rewarded: Morality and Faith in Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Magazine Collection, exh. cat., Kentucky 1988, pp. 12-13, no. 47, reproducedR. Beresford, Victorian Visions: Nineteenth Century Art from the John Schaeffer Collection, exh. cat., Sydney 2010, p. 72, no. 16, reproduced in colour pp. 20-21 (detail) and p. 73K. Westwood, Thomas Sidney Cooper C.V.O., R. A. His Life and Work, Ilminster 2011, vol. I, p. 382, vol. II, reproduced in colour pp. 212-13