| Cooper, Drury W. | ||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||
| dates | 1872-1957 | |||||||||
| city | Brattleboro | |||||||||
| state | VT | |||||||||
| other cities | Brunswick, NJ; New York, NY; Montclair, NJ; | |||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||
| history |
Drury Walls Cooper was an art collector, patent attorney (former head of New York firm Cooper, Dunham, Dearborn & Henninger), New Brunswick New Jersey mayor (1904-1907), Trustee of Rutgers University, the First Congressional Church of Montclair and the Montclair Art Museum. Cooper's collection included works of art by or attributed to Raphael (Madonna of the Pinks), Titian, Lillian Adams, Ralph Albert Blakelock, George Inness, Lucas Cranach, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Sidney Dickinson, Claude Monet, Jean-Jacques Henner, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Andrea del Sarto, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Henry Raeburn, and Giuseppe Maria Crespi among others. Cooper was a member of the University and Bankers clubs, the Downtown and New York Bar, New York County, and New York Patent Law associations. In 1898 he married Esther S. Nicholas (1874-1947). She was a founder of the New Jersey College for Women and the New Jersey Congress of Parents and Teachers (president 1918-1924) and the Middle Atlantic Council of Parents and Teachers. |
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| decades | 1930-1940 1940-1950 1950-1960 |
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| updated | 11/24/2025 10:11:51 | |||||||||
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