
Frank Cadogan Cowper Painting Reproductions Gallery 1 of 1
1877-1958English Pre-Raphaelite Painter
Frank Cadogan Cowper (16 October 1877- 17 November 1958) was an English artist, described as "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites".
Cowper was born in Wicken, Northamptonshire, son of an author and early pioneer of coastal cruising in yachts, Frank Cowper, and grandson of the Rector of Wicken. He had a strict religious upbringing in the tradition of the Plymouth Brethren. He first studied art at St John's Wood Art School in 1896 and then went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1897-1902. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899, and achieved critical success two years later with his An Aristocrat answering the Summons to Execution, Paris 1791 (1901). In 1902, he spent six months studying under Edwin Austin Abbey before travelling to Italy.
He worked in both watercolours and oils, and also worked as book illustrator - providing the illustrations for Sir Sidney Lee's The Imperial Shakespeare. He contributed to a mural in the Houses of Parliament in 1910 along with Byam Shaw, Ernest Board and Henry Arthur Payne.
As art fashion changed Cowper increasingly exhibited his portrait paintings but still continued to produce historical and literary works.
He retired from London to Gloucestershire. His The Ugly Duckling was voted the favourite painting by visitors to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum in 2005.
14 Paintings of Frank Cadogan Cowper
Private Collection
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
$1148
$64.26
Private Collection
Molly, Duchess Of Nona
$894
Royal Academy of Arts London United Kingdom
Vanity
$869
Private Collection
The Damsel of the Lake, Called Nimue the Enchantress
$807
$70.86
Private Collection
Errant Knight
$633
$48.96
Private Collection
Mephistopheles and Marguerite in the Cathedral
$1013
$47.90
Private Collection
Rapunzel
$594
$47.90
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museums Gloucestershire United Kingdom
The Ugly Duckling
$677
$59.44
Private Collection
St. Francis of Assisi and the Heavenly Melody
$1332
$58.08
Private Collection
Entry of Queen Mary I with Princess Elizabeth ...
$62.42
Private Collection
John Cabot and his Sons Receive the Charter from ...
$62.42
Private Collection
Erasmus and Sir Thomas More Visit the Children of ...
$62.42
Private Collection
Charles I Erecting His Standard at Nottingham on ...
$71.85
Private Collection
The Blue Bird
$840