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Last Name Cooper

Given Name Richard

alt. Names R. C. ; Richard Cooper SR ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1701 in London

Year died 1764

Place of death

Father's occupation bricklayer and citizen William Cooper (1xxx- c. 1709)

Relatives Mary Smith (1xxx- before1709) (mother) ; carpenter Henry Sell (1xxx- c. 1711)

Education apprentice to stationer John Clark London

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Alexander Monro (1697-1767): Medical Essays (1734) ; B. S. Albinus: Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani ;

Patronage Sir Felix Feast (1xxx-1724) School of St Luke ;

Collaborators engraver Robert Strange (1721-1792) ; Andrew Bell ; Thomas Donaldson ; Peter Donaldson ; Andrew Fyfe ; geographer, mathematician, and map-maker ->John Adair (1650 / 1655 c. -1722) ;

Techniques anatomical and cartographical drawing, engraving, and etching

Sample(s) https://sites.google.com/site/richardcooperengraver/home/richard-cooper-and-anatomical-illustration ;

Archival sources

Published sources Dr. Joe Roe's webpage on R. C. ;

other Founder of first Scottish academy of artists.

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