Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Robert Vernon
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-sidney-cooper-112" aria-label="More by Thomas Sidney Cooper" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Sidney Cooper</a>
Milking Time  a FarmYard near Canterbury
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
agricultural
animals: birds
animals: mammals
architecture
Canterbury, Thanington, Tonford Manor
cart
chicken
cow
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farm
figure
goat
horse
Kent
landscape
people
places
sheep
society
stable
Stour Valley
transport: land
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
wooded
<p>Cooper often painted subjects from the Stour Valley in Kent. Here he depicts Tonford Manor, Thanington, now a suburb of Canterbury. His apparently truthful portrayal of cattle and sheep introduced a new note into English art. His style is modelled on that of the Belgian painter Eugene Verboekhoven (1798–1881), who specialised in cattle pictures modelled on Dutch 17th-century masters such as Paulus Potter (1620–91) and Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691). These artists were much in vogue among British collectors of the time, and Cooper was sometimes called the English ‘Paul Potter’.</p><p><em>Gallery label, February 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
Milking Time - Study of a Farm-Yard near Canterbury
support: 965 × 1333 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
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<p>Cooper often painted subjects from the Stour Valley in Kent. Here he depicts Tonford Manor, Thanington, now a suburb of Canterbury. His apparently truthful portrayal of cattle and sheep introduced a new note into English art. His style is modelled on that of the Belgian painter Eugene Verboekhoven (1798–1881), who specialised in cattle pictures modelled on Dutch 17th-century masters such as Paulus Potter (1620–91) and Aelbert Cuyp (1620–1691). These artists were much in vogue among British collectors of the time, and Cooper was sometimes called the English ‘Paul Potter’.</p>
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adults agricultural animals: birds animals: mammals architecture Canterbury, Thanington, Tonford Manor cart chicken cow England England, South East England, Southern farm figure goat horse Kent landscape people places sheep society stable Stour Valley transport: land UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features wooded