Harold Copping

Harold Copping entered London's Royal Academy where he won a Landseer Scholarship to study in Paris.

[2] Copping used family, friends and neighbours as models in his paintings, keeping a stock of costumes and props at his home.

Copping's beautifully executed watercolour illustrations were put onto lantern slides and were used by Christian missionaries all over the world.

Dr. Sandy Brewer wrote of this image: "The Hope of the World, painted by Harold Copping for the London Missionary Society in 1915, is arguably the most popular picture of Jesus produced in Britain in the twentieth century.

[3] His illustrations for non-religious books included Hammond's Hard Lines (1894), Miss Bobbie (1897), Millionaire (1898), A Queen Among Girls (1900), The Pilgrim's Progress (1903), Westward Ho!

(1903), Grace Abounding (1905), Three School Chums (1907), Little Women (1912), Good Wives (1913), A Christmas Carol (1920) and Character Sketches from Boz (1924).