His work was characteristically dramatic in the style of Walter Sickert and James Whistler, using a "muddy" palette of browns and greys, creams and beiges, with small touches of red, contrasted with bright artificial light, creating a chiaroscuro effect. In this respect, his work echoed elements of that of his father, Charles Cope, who had specialised in traditional genre and historical scenes. — Amy Licence, Ch. 4
Works
- Richard Redgrave, CB RA
- Sir William Henry Perkin
- Sir Edward Poynter
- Princess Beatrice
- Alfred Waterhouse
- [George] Vicat Cole, RA
Bibliography
Brimacombe, Ruth (12 September 2019). "Cope, Sir Arthur Stockdale (1857–1940)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Web. 30 August 2022.
Licence, Amy. Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Stroud, Glos.: Amberley, 2016.
Roberts, Colonel Herbert Harrington. Memories of four-score years. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head, 1920. Full text on the Victorian Web.
"Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope." National Portrait Gallery. Web. 30 August 2022.
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