Frank Cadogan Cowper

Frank Cadogan Cowper studied at Cranleigh School, St John's Wood Art School and Royal Academy Schools. Training under Edwin Austin Abbey is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait, history, mythological and painting. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais are recorded as an influence. Residence is recorded at London and Isle of Wight. Works named in the authority record are Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth, Vanity and The Ugly Duckling. Work by Frank Cadogan Cowper is recorded in the collections of Tate, Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts and The Wilson. Distinctions recorded are Royal Academician.

• Name — Frank Cadogan Cowper • Born — 16 October 1877 • Birthplace — Wicken, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom • Died — 17 November 1958 • Place of death — Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom • Parents — * Frank Cowper • E. E. Cowper • Relatives — * Edward Cadogan (grandfather) • Edward Cadogan (cousin) • Sir William Carlile (uncle) • Education — Royal Academy Schools • Known for — Painting • Movement — Pre-Raphaelite Romanticism • Works — Vanity (1907), The young Duchess (1917), La Belle Dame sans Merci (1926) • Patron — Evelyn Waugh • Awards — Royal Academician RWA Academician • Illustration — Detail of Margaret, Henry VIII, and Princess Mary being visited by Erasmus, dated c. 1910

• Illustration — Lucretia Borgia Reigns in the Vatican in the Absence of Pope Alexander VI, ca. 1910 Frank Cadogan Cowper was born in Wicken, Northamptonshire, the son of an author and early pioneer of coastal cruising in yachts, Frank Cowper, and grandson of Edward Cadogan, the Rector of Wicken. Cadogan Cowper was educated at Cranleigh before going on to study art, first at St John's Wood Art School in 1896 and then at the Royal Academy Schools from 1897 to 1902. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1899 and achieved critical acclaim two years later with his An Aristocrat Answering the Summons to Execution, Paris 1791 (1901). In 1902, Cadogan Cowper spent six months as an apprentice helping Edwin Austin Abbey complete a monumental canvas painting The Coronation of King Edward VII (now in the Royal Collection) before travelling to Italy to continue his studies. Cadogan Cowper worked in oils, tempera and watercolours, and simultaneously worked as a book illustrator, providing the illustrations for Sir Sidney Lee's The Imperial Shakespeare. He contributed to a mural in the Houses of Parliament in 1910-12 along with John Byam Liston Shaw, Ernest Board and Henry Arthur Payne. As art trends changed, Cadogan Cowper increasingly exhibited his portrait paintings and still continued to produce historical and literary works of art. Cadogan Cowper retired from London and moved to Gloucestershire. One of his paintings, The Ugly Duckling, was voted "their favourite painting" by visitors to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum in 2005. The record price for a Cadogan Cowper painting at sale is £469,250 for Our Lady of the Fruits of the Earth (1917) at Christie's in London on 17 December, 2011. The National Gallery of London staged an exhibition Saint Francis of Assisi which included the work of Frank Cadogan Cowper in 2023. In 2024, the Musei di San Domenico in Forlì, Italy, hosted the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: A Modern Renaissance that featured the work of Cadogan Cowper Vanity.

• Evelyn Waugh • The Wills Family of Miserden Park

• 1902 (6 mos)》 Morgan Hall, Fairford, Gloucestershire • 1903 – 1905 》 1 Edwardes Square Studios, Kensington, London • 1905 – 1909 》 38 Barrow Hill Road, St John's Wood, N.W., London • 1909 – 1924 》 2 Edwardes Square Studios, Kensington, London • 1924 – 1940 》 3 Tite Street, SW3, London • 1940 – 1944 》 The Studio, Les Blanches, St Martin's, Jersey • 1944 – 1951 》 Hughenden House, Fairford, Gloucestershire • 1951 – 1958 》 Summerton, Berkeley Road, Cirencester, Wiltshire

• Illustration — Fanny, Sketch of a girl in crinoline dress (1903) • Illustration — The Morning of the Nativity (1912)

The authorities additionally record the headings Frank Cadogan Cowper, R.A. Cadogan Cowper, F.C. Cowper, Cadogan Cowper and Frank Cadogan-Cowper. His recorded language was English. He was the child of Frank Cowper and Edith Cowper. Other recorded relations include Edward Cadogan, William Carlile and Harry Cooper.

Frank Cadogan Cowper worked in painting. His work is associated with Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Romanticism. He belonged to Royal Academy of Arts, Royal West of England Academy, Royal Watercolour Society, Royal Society of Portrait Painters and Society of Graphic Art. He worked at London and Isle of Wight.

Frank Cadogan Cowper is recorded as having studied at Cranleigh School, St John's Wood Art School and Royal Academy Schools.