William Brown Cooper

William Brown Cooper (1811–1900) was an American portrait painter from the state of Tennessee.

William Brown Cooper was born in 1811 near Carthage in Smith County, Tennessee.

[1][2] He was educated at the National Academy Museum and School in New York City as well as in Paris and Rome for three years.

[1] Back in the United States, he started his career as a painter, and was active in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, Little Rock, Arkansas, Natchez, Mississippi and Tennessee.

They founded the Chattanooga School for Young Ladies, where William B. Cooper was in charge of the art department at the time of his death.