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Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook

COOPER, Thornhill 1840–1940

COOPER, Thornhill 1840–1940

Christchurch photographer and painter. Born Doncaster, England, was in Victoria, Australia 1860–61. Returned to England but was soon in British Columbia and California. From San Francisco came to Port Chalmers and Dunedin, joining the Bank of New Zealand there 1863. By 1875 was a photographer in Oxford Terrace, Christchurch: sold the business the next year and announced a photographic tour of Canterbury. In 1880, with Ledbetter, was a marine average adjuster and accountant in Wellington: in 1884 back in Christchurch. 1868 made interesting pen and wash drawings of West Coast scenes. His great hobby had been painting in water-colours and in 1886 became student at Canterbury School of Art. Exhibited with CSA regularly 1884–94, then irregularly. In the NZ & South Seas Ex, Dunedin 1889–90 exhibited South Island scenes and one Indian subject. Work included in Canterbury Retrospective Ex 1951. Represented: Canterbury Museum, Hokitika Museum.