Background
She was the daughter of Robert Wickliffe Cooper and Sarah Steele (Venable) Cooper, but she never knew her father. He died a few weeks before she was born. Her father had been a Union Army cavalry officer during the Civil War.
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Wickliffe Covington
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She studied at Sayre Female Institute, the New England Conservatory of Music and the Art Students League of New New York She also studied art with Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer — with whom she would remain a close friend — James Carroll Beckwith, Kenyon Cox, William Merritt Chase and Wayman Elbridge Adams.
Career
Covington exhibited at the 1904 World"s Fair in Saint Louis. She taught art at Potter College for Young Ladies in Bowling Green, Kentucky. After that, she painted and taught art in a studio in a cabin that she renovated that was near her residence.
Along with noted artists, such as William Merritt Chase and photographer Ansel Adams, Covington was an artist and resident of the Carmel art colony.
She exhibited her art in the southern and western United States. Her painting Portrait of Clarence Underwood McElroy is in the Kentucky Museum collection of the Western Kentucky University.
About 1895 she made a portrait of Judge Robert William Wells (1795-1864) of Missouri. In addition to the paintings that she made of notable Bowling Green residents, she also painted still lifes and flowers.
