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In he painted The Embarkation of a Puritan Family for New England for the peers' corridor in the House of Lords, for which a fresco was afterwards substituted. The main painting was sent to America, and Cope was made an honorary member of the Philadelphian Society of Arts. In the fresco of Raising the Standard was placed in the peers' corridor.

In he painted using the "water-glass method" the fresco of The Defence of Basing House, and in —64 that of the Expulsion of Fellows from Oxford for refusing to sign the Covenant. In he exhibited a study of Fra Angelico in oil, afterwards executed in mosaic on a larger scale at the South Kensington Museum. In the year his large posthumous portrait of Prince Albert was hung in the large room of the Society of Arts.

In he was appointed professor of painting at the Royal Academy, and delivered six lectures a year till In also he painted a third scene moonlight from Othello exhibited Cope's wife, Charlotte, died in Final years [ edit ] Photograph of Charles West Cope Cope continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy until , his most important painting of that period being The Council of the Royal Academy selecting Pictures for the Exhibition, shown in In that same year he went to America as one of the representatives of the RA at the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia.

In Cope married his second wife Eleanor Smart. They settled at Maidenhead in Berkshire on the Thames. In he retired as a professional artist though he continued to paint for his own enjoyment and also took up boating and cycling. He made an early friend of the great patron John Sheepshanks, and was introduced by him to George Richmond and Richard Redgrave.

Bullied at school for his sensitive nature, the young Cope suffered a broken elbow as a result of a particularly serious beating, which left his arm crooked for the rest of his life. As a young man, Charles West Cope began his art studies at the school of Henry Sass in Bloomsbury, London, moving on to the Royal Academy School in where he remained for three years.

In , at the age of twenty, he travelled to Paris where he studied and copied the old masters in the Louvre. He was particularly fascinated by the Venetian scenes exhibited there, and shortly thereafter organized a trip to Italy. After visiting Florence, Rome, and Naples, he remained in Venice for two years to pursue his painting. In Cope married Charlotte Benning the daughter of a surgeon with a country practice.

The couple moved in a house in Kensington which Cope commissioned in They had two children, Margaret and Arthur. Wilner 5. Study of a girl's head Michele : presented to Arthur Glennie. Sulivan, Esq. Small head of Eugenie Sulivan: presented to R. Small portrait of son of Sir H. Floyd Florence : not exhibited. Mother and Child three-quarters, Florence.

Exhibited at British Gallery; sold to Mr. Beckford, Bath; repeated for Marquis of Lansdowne, No. The Convent Door: painted at Florence for Wm. Hey, Esq. Kiallmark No. The Highland Soldier's Return. Exhibited at British Institution; sold to Mr. Mollison, an engraver. Watteau subject: three-quarter panel, exhibited at British Institution; forget what became of it Paolo and Francesca: Bishop's half-length canvas, exhibited at Royal Academy , hung in left angle of great room, just above line; sold to the original Art Union.

Love in the Virgin Breast of Beauty Lying. Exhibited at British Institution; not sold. Portrait of Mr. Minshull: sent to Royal Academy; rejected. Ditto repeated, Portrait of J. Andresen of Christiania, as a young Franciscan monk: cleaned and presented to him in Doorway of St Mark's, Venice. Study from Miss Kiallmark, looking up: given to her.

Maiden Meditation, done from Miss Kiallmark, size of life. Harris; bought by Mr. Walford, Lowndes Square. The Applicant. Exhibited at Liverpool; sold to John Clow, Esq. Portrait of Mrs. Atkinson: small half-quarter. The Post Office. Exhibited at British Gallery. The Chess-Players. Exhibited at British Gallery not sold ; Liverpool; Glasgow, Portrait of Richard Atkinson, Esq.

Osteria di Campagna, between Rome and Ancona — Vettura Travellers Repast; German students in the background: hung under the line in first room, and at Manchester Exhibition, ; sold to Mr. Villebois, of Benham. The Flemish Mother. Exhibited at Royal Academy not sold ; Mr. Merrit, picture cleaner, had it to mend; hung in middle room. Portraits of Sir E.

Filmer's children. Exhibited at Royal Academy Commission. Dog Pepper; painted at Barnard Castle; given to H. Benning, Esq. Altar-piece for St. George's Church, Leeds: size sixteen feet by ten feet, exhibited at Royal Academy, and at Liverpool, where it had the prize of fifty guineas awarded; presented to the church. Beneficence Cousins, an Art Union prize-holder.

After Mr. Cousins' death, in , this picture was sold at his sale to Mr. Cooper, Wellesley Road, Croydon. The Penitent's Return. Ditto, unfinished. Royal Academy catalogue, No. Mother and Child taught to Read: kit-cat, exhibited at Royal Academy, hung in architectural room; sold to Mr. Dorrington before exhibition. Repetition of Mr. The Hawthorn Bush: half-length canvas, exhibited at Royal Academy, right corner of middle room; sold to J.

Sheepshanks, Esq. The Cotter's Saturday Night: small half-length canvas, exhibited at Royal Academy, low down, right centre of great room; painted for Wm. Gott, Esq. Search the Scriptures Reading the Scriptures, catalogue. Royal Academy. Exhibited at Royal Academy, middle room, over line, large half-length canvas; painted for John Gott, Esq.

Portrait of Francis Wilmer six years old : painted for Miss Worthington. Cartoon of First Trial by Jury. Jacob and Rachel: cartoon, exhibited at Westminster Hall. Ditto, portable fresco, exhibited at Westminster Hall destroyed by self in The Tenants. Exhibited at Royal Academy; sold to J. The Cup of Cold Water. Exhibited at the Royal Academy No.

Munro of Novar? Exhibited at the Royal Academy; not sold; sent for diploma picture. George Burke. Not exhibited; sold to Miss Atkinson. Same as mentioned above, or a repetition? Cartoon of the Order of the Garter.

Charles west cope two mothers kitchen

Exhibited at Westminster Hall. No pictures in Royal Academy. Cope went to Italy. Small copy of Mr. Minshull's portrait: not exhibited; painted for — Morgan, Esq. The Young Mother nursing. Exhibited at the Royal 'Academy, well hung in comer of great room; sold to J. Exhibited at the Royal Academy, sold to Sir J. Small cartoon the second of Order of the Garter.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy, hung in miniature room. Maiden Meditation. Exhibited at the Royal Academy; sold to J. Exhibited at the Royal Academy; sold to Mr. Collyer, Art Union. Cope Cardinal Wolsey: painted for H. L'Allegro Exhibited at the Royal Academy; II Penseroso both sold to J. Cartoon of Griselda.