The Life and Works of Alexander Davis Cooper Alexander Davis Cooper was a British painter, engraver, and illustrator born in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His professional life spanned much of the nineteenth century, concluding with his death in 1895. The artist's legacy is preserved through several notable works held in prestigious institutions. His catalog includes pieces such as Kish-ke-kosh, painted in 1862, and Indian Man with Quiver, dated 1886, both of which are part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. Additionally, his portrait of Sir Alexa…
A chart of Alexander Davis Cooper's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.