A 19thC Ebonised Napoleon III French Armchair c.1870 poa-item As a student Cooper spent

As a student Cooper spent over a year assisting John Singer Sargent in Chelsea

(for there is a small hole drilled to the underside of the base for attachment)

one being a plinth corner lacking and one tail end is chipped

He was also very talented at mimicking human speech and was once reprimanded for imitating a police officer upon his arrest for stealing pecan nuts from Mr Magee’s potting shed

the dog does have some small areas of loss as photographed

A 19thC Ebonised Napoleon III French Armchair c.1870 poa-item As a student Cooper spentOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Napoleon IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Width: 30. 5Height: 35 or 15 at seatDepth: 34 (all at extremities)The nineteenth century Napoleon III period armchair, in an old fawn draylon, ready for reupholstery, having turned ebonised front legs to slender swept backs each with the original castors, the frame with shaped arms and a scrolled back, the whole surviving from the latter half of nineteenth century France. The chair is