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Charles West Cope
English painter and etcher
Charles West CopeRA (28 July 1811, in Leeds – 21 August 1890, in Bournemouth) was an English, Victorian era painter of genre and history scenes, and an etcher.
He was responsible for painting several frescos in the House of Lords in London.
Life and work
Early life and training
Cope was born at Park Square in Leeds, the son of Charles Cope, a watercolour landscape painter and art teacher.
He was given the name 'West' after that of a celebrated painter, Benjamin West, and his only sister Ellen, given the middle-name 'Turner', after J. M. W. Turner – both painters being friends of his father.
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His mother was "a gifted amateur" artist in watercolours who died shortly after Charles' birth.
Charles was sent as a child to a boarding school in Camberwell, London, and afterwards to "Terry's school" (sic) at Great Marlow, where he was bullied and his elbow broken, which left him with a crooked arm for life.
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