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Alfred Heaton Cooper was born in Manchester and brought up in Bolton, Lancashire. He went to
London to study art, and was heavily influenced by Turner,
Constable and Millet.
He was determined to make a living by his art. Alfred settled to a life of continuous painting. His wife ran the studio while he tramped the Lakeland fells and valleys, finding scenes which inspired him to paint and which would appeal to visitors. |
It is difficult to assess the extent of Alfred's output of art. He would be amazed now to find some of his larger original paintings selling for several thousand pounds, and even more amazed to see thousands of reproduction prints of his work sold every year from the gallery in Grasmere which bears his name.
A new biography, "ALFRED HEATON COOPER - Painter of Landscape" by Jane Renouf tells the full story, with indexed references to his many achievements
Alfred's son William continued the family tradition as an artist.
For more information about the studio, and more extensive biographies of William and Alfred, see 'www.heatoncooper.co.uk'. The above is a summary of that biography, used with permission.
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