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For all your Cooper artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

How to get a Cooper Certificate of Authenticity is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Cooper painting, drawing or print.

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We have been authenticating Cooper and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Cooper experts and Cooper certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Cooper artworks.

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We are available to examine your Cooper painting, drawing or print anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Cooper paintings or drawings take longer.

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We perform Abraham Cooper art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Abraham Cooper or we will sell it for you.

Abraham Cooper was an English animal and battle painter. He was born in London and was the son of a tobacconist. At the age of thirteen he became an employee at Astley’s Amphitheatre, and was afterwards groomed in the service of Sir Henry Meux. When he was twenty-two, wishing to possess a portrait of a favorite horse under his care, he bought a manual of painting, learned something of the use of oil-colours, and painted the picture on a canvas hung against the stable wall. His master bought it and encouraged him to continue in his efforts. He accordingly began to copy prints of horses, and was introduced to Benjamin Marshall, the animal painter, who took him into his studio, and seems to have introduced him to the Sporting Magazine, an illustrated periodical to which he was himself a contributor.

In 1814 he exhibited his Tam o’shater, and in 1816 he won a prize for his Battle of Ligny. In 1817 he exhibited his Battle of Marston Moor and was made associate of the Academy, and in 1820 he was elected Academician. Cooper, although ill-educated, was a clever and conscientious artist; his colouring was somewhat flat and dead, but he was a master of equine portraiture and anatomy, and had some antiquarian knowledge. He had a special fondness for Cavalier and Roundhead pictures.

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