Hawkshead Hearth - Original Painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) Christmas casting resin and liquid pigment

casting resin and liquid pigment is made

before painting at a later stage

In this wonderfully tranquil painting

This can cause the acrylic film to break down

and was tutor to several Greek heroes

Hawkshead Hearth - Original Painting by Alfred Heaton Cooper (1863 - 1929) Christmas casting resin and liquid pigmentA fascinating unsigned watercolour of an interior verified by a note on the back by William Heaton Cooper, which reads: This watercolour 'Hawkshead Hearth' was painted by my father Alfred Heaton Cooper around the mid 1920s." A letter from William to a previous owner says that it was painted in "an old house in Flag Street, since demolished". One of Alfred's later works, the style is "much bolder and broader than earlier works or than most of his