Charles Cooper-Henderson

Henderson was born in 1803 and is known today as a painter of coaching scenes in oils and watercolours. He exhibited only twice in London, at the Royal Academy in 1840 and in 1848, working almost entirely throughout his life for private patrons. During his lifetime, coaches had already begun to disappear from the English roads but Henderson, like J C Maggs, maintained the tradition of coaching artists and many of his highly popular pictures were engraved by leading companies of the day, including Ackermanns. As a boy Henderson studied law before deciding to take lessons from Samuel Prout and take up a career in the art world. Charles Cooper Henderson died in 1877.