of a good title: Profile for Victory. We see a man of great determination, conscious of a great task still to he performed, and ready to carry it through to the end. The expression is not especially grim. It is interesting to compare this portrait with the head in bronze of Mr Churchill by Sir W. Reid Dick, which is among the best exhibits in the Sculpture Gallery".The Scotsman, 1 May 1943. "Sporting canvas by Mr A. Egerton Cooper, in the exhibition of his works in the Grafton Street Galleries of Messrs Ellis and Smith. The number of well-known turf personalities identified on this painting give added interest to its wealth of colour and detail. Mr Cooper is a portrait painter of distinction, and his brilliant profile of the Rt. Hon. Mr. Winston Churchill, which attracted a great deal of attention at the Royal Academy of 1943 has been loaned to this show. This versatile artist, equally expert in the handling of flower studies as open-air subjects of a sporting flavour, has a number of such works both in oils and water-colour on view. The exhibitions of Messrs. Ellis and Smith in the past have been mainly devoted to the paintings by the old masters, and this changeover to contemporary work is for the special benefit of the South London Hospital for Women and Children. This hospital has set out to raise a sum of £100,000 () in the course of the next seven years. Mr Egerton Cooper has donated a framed canvas for sale to the highest tender, to be painted with a subject of the purchaser's choice". Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 22 June 1945. (Note: Cooper was photographed at that exhibition, with his portrait of Churchill). Cooper in popular culture Some scenes in the film, The Dam Busters, were shot in 1954 in the house of Cooper's friend Barnes Wallis. Pictures by Cooper can be seen hanging in the rooms. Notes References External links Alfred Egerton Cooper on Art UK Microfilm of news photo of Cooper in 1964: Westminster & Pimlico News, Friday 20 November 1964, p.7 (Subscription required) 1883 births 1974 deaths Aviation artists 20th-century British painters British male painters Olympic competitors in art competitions People from Wolverhampton 19th-century British male artists 20th-century British male artists