Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
COOPER, William Marshall 1833–1921
COOPER, William Marshall 1833–1921
Surveyor in Greymouth 1865; in 1873 with Hector on the West Coast and 1876 employed by Canterbury Provincial Council. Exhibited in Philadelphia 1876. Watercolours of Charleston on the West Coast are in Turnbull, an 1868 watercolour in the National Museum, and a watercolour of the Old Government House in Wellington 1874 in NAG. Lithographs of Cooper's sketches published about 1870 by Harnett & Co., Hokitika, are in Turnbull and Hocken.