"British painter and illustrator Frank Cadogan Cowper was born a bit late to have been a Pre-Raphaelite painter, but like his contemporaries Henry Payne and Byam Shaw, he took to their style and subject matter so strongly as to be known as a Neo-Pre-Raphaelite (it that’s not an inherently self-contradictory term). Cowper’s work fell into obscurity after his death in 1950s — in the middle of the dominance of the art world by the dictates of Modernism — but like many of the other Victorian and Edwardian painters who worked in similar artistic/literary traditions, his work again saw appreciation with the return to favor of those styles in the late 20th and early 21st centuries." http://linesandcolors.com/2014/08/03/frank-cadogan-cowper/ "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites. Cowper was born in Northamptonshire. He studied at the St John's Wood Art School, and the Royal Academy Schools, after which he went to Italy. In the early part of the 20th century, some of his pictures were quite extraordinarily beautiful. Cowper became ARA in 1907, and a full RA in 1934, when his Diploma work was a painting called 'Vanity,' painted in 1907. I saw this picture at an exhibition at The Djangoly Gallery at Nottingham University in 1994. The exhibition was called 'Heaven on Earth, The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art. ... He lived most of his life in London, but in old age retired to Cirencester. Cowper exhibited a the Royal Academy for over fifty years, and in the mid 1950s must have seemed to come from a different artistic epoch, which of course he did. In later life one of his main patrons was Evelyn Waugh. In old age the quality of the painters work is widely held to have declined, but he was true to the great artistic traditions to the last, and in his long career produced much that was highly individual, decorative, and that overworked word beautiful. " http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=758 undefined

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