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 Among the sets he did over his active period have been:
-''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863), ''[[The Excursionist]]'' (a "world [[diorama]]" created by [[R.S. Cooper|Cooper]] himself (1867), followed by ''[[The Cosmorama]]''.
+''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863), ''[[The Excursionist]]'' (a "world [[diorama]]" created by [[R.S. Cooper|Cooper]] himself (1867), followed by another diorama, ''[[The Cosmorama]]'' in 1868.
 ''[[Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, or The Fairy Brilliantina and Harlequin and the Magic Donkey]]'' (1878)

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 Among the sets he did over his active period have been:
-''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863), ''[[The Excursionist]]'' (a "world [[diorama]]" created by [[R.S. Cooper|Cooper]] himself (1867), .
+''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863), ''[[The Excursionist]]'' (a "world [[diorama]]" created by [[R.S. Cooper|Cooper]] himself (1867), followed by ''[[The Cosmorama]]''.
 ''[[Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, or The Fairy Brilliantina and Harlequin and the Magic Donkey]]'' (1878)

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 Among the sets he did over his active period have been:
-''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863)
+''[[Our Volunteers]]'' (ca. 1863), ''[[The Excursionist]]'' (a "world [[diorama]]" created by [[R.S. Cooper|Cooper]] himself (1867), .
 ''[[Ali Baba and The Forty Thieves, or The Fairy Brilliantina and Harlequin and the Magic Donkey]]'' (1878)

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 [[R.S. Cooper]] (fl 1860s and 1870s) was an actor, scene painter and set designer.
-Also listed as as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''' in some pogrammes, aprticularly when listed as actor, he was more often referred to as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''', '''[[Mr Cooper]]''', in the convention of the times or simply as '''Cooper'''.  The name '''[[A. Cooper]]''' also occurs for a set designer/builder, but as far as can be ascertained, this was most probably a misspelling and refers to the same person.
+Also listed as as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''' in some pogrammes, particularly when listed as actor, he was more often referred to as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''', '''[[Mr Cooper]]''', in the convention of the times or simply as '''Cooper'''.  The name '''[[A. Cooper]]''' also occurs for a set designer/builder, but as far as can be ascertained, this was most probably a misspelling and refers to the same person.
 == Biography ==

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 [[R.S. Cooper]] (fl 1860s and 1870s) was an actor, scene painter and set designer.
-Also listed as as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''' in some pogrammes, aprticularly when listed as actyor, he was more often referred to as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''', '''[[Mr Cooper]]''', in the convention of the times or simply as '''Cooper'''.  The name '''[[A. Cooper]]''' also occurs for a set designer/builder, but as far as can be ascertained, this was most probably a misspelling and refers to the same person.
+Also listed as as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''' in some pogrammes, aprticularly when listed as actor, he was more often referred to as '''[[Richard Cooper]]''', '''[[Mr Cooper]]''', in the convention of the times or simply as '''Cooper'''.  The name '''[[A. Cooper]]''' also occurs for a set designer/builder, but as far as can be ascertained, this was most probably a misspelling and refers to the same person.
 == Biography ==
-In the programme for The Lonely Man of the Ocean
+Though his involvement in theatre is recorded, little is known about his personal biography, beyond the fact that he appears to have brought out from England (where he had been with the Royal Britannia Theatre), by Sefton Parry in March 1861 as part of a large new company.  had originally begun his career in South Africa in Port Elizabeth, later moving to Cape Town, and was married to actress and choreographer [[Mrs Cooper]].
-Though his involvement in theatre is recorded, little is known about his personal biography, beyond the fact that he appears to have come from England (where he had been with the Royal Britannia Theatre), had originally begun his career in South Africa in Port Elizabeth, later moving to Cape Town, and was married to actress and choreographer [[Mrs Cooper]].
+==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
-==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==
+Referred to as a "veteran artist", Cooper was probably the most prominent set designer, builder and painter of the 1860s-1870s in Cape Town.
-Referred to as a "veteran artist", Cooper was probably the most prominent set designer and painter of the 1860s-1870s in Cape Town.
+He worked for [[Sefton Parry]] in his first fully professional season (1861), ''inter alia'' as actor (billed as '''Mr [[Richard Cooper]]''') and as the set designer (listed as "Cooper") for ''[[ The Lonely Man of the Ocean]]'' at the [[Royal Theatre]] in May 1861.
-He worked for [[Sefton Parry]] in his first fully professional season (1861), inter alia as actor (billed as '''Mr [[Richard Cooper]]''') and set designer,  and in 1865 decorated the revamped [[Sefton Parry]]'s original [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town for [[J.H. le Roy]], who had hired the theatre and for whom he also worked as set designer and scene painter on productions by the [[Le Roy-Duret]] company in that period. For two years (1966-1967) he also served in the same capacity for the [[Ray and Cooper Company]], founded by him, in association with performers [[Alfred Ray]], [[Mrs Ray]] and [[Mrs Cooper]].
+In 1865 he decorated the revamped [[Sefton Parry]]'s original [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town for [[J.H. le Roy]], who had hired the theatre and for whom he also worked as set designer and scene painter on productions by the [[Le Roy-Duret]] company in that period. For two years (1966-1967) he also served in the same capacity for the [[Ray and Cooper Company]], founded by him, in association with performers [[Alfred Ray]], [[Mrs Ray]] and [[Mrs Cooper]].
 Cooper later also assisted on productions by [[Disney Roebuck]].

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 == Biography ==
-Though his involvement in theatre is recorded, little is known about his personal biography, beyond the fact that he was married to [[Mrs Cooper]]
+Though his involvement in theatre is recorded, little is known about his personal biography, beyond the fact that he originally began his career in South Africa in Port Elizabeth, later moving to Cape Town, was married to actress and choreographer [[Mrs Cooper]]
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==