Artist

Cooper Willyams

Syria. east view of Caiffe a Turkish town at the foot of Mount Carmel
The first day's attack on the Castle of Aboukir by the Turkish Gun-boats having five British, and five Russian seamen in each, and assisted by the boats of the Swiftsure, octr: 24th
A Scene on board His Majesty's Ship Swiftsure.  off Alexandria in Egypt - Sepr. 10th 1798
Syria.  Mode of Agriculture at the Foot of Mount Carmel

Cooper Willyams is a British Romanticism artist. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

This artist painted detailed watercolours of life at sea and in the eastern Mediterranean around 1800. Look at scenes like A Scene on board His Majesty’s Ship Swiftsure from 1798, showing sailors off Alexandria, or The first day’s attack on the Castle of Aboukir, a battle drawing packed with tiny British and Russian boats. If you want to see how people drew water or farmed near Syria, try Mode of drawing or raising water at a farm near Syracuse or Syria. Mode of Agriculture at the Foot of Mount Carmel.

Works by Cooper Willyams

Collections represented

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