COOLING GALLERIES
Cooling Galleries at 92 New Bond Street, London W 1, was established in 1797 as has been noted on a label on a painting by Paul Seignac (1826-1904) 'The Young Mother' sold at Bonhams and another by Giuseppe Elettro (20th Century Italian) oil on canvas 'Continental Street Scene' sold by Reeman Dansie of Colchester in 2024. Other artists who exhibited at this gallery with gallery labels included Sir Joshua Reynolds. John Cooling, was a picture restorer and art dealer but Cooling Galleries seem to have been promoted by his son John Albert Cooling (20 March 1859-26 May 1931). Young John Cooling was educated at University College London, Royal College of Art at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools, where he was a medalist and exhibitor in 1880. Originally a portrait painter and restorer entering the art business in 1884 at the Cooling Galleries, originally at 150 Southampton Row then at 47 Fleet Street and from 1911 until the mid-1970s at 92 New Bond Street when they moved to 37-38 Albermarle Street. The gallery merged with Newman & Co to become Newman & Cooling and eventually closed in the late 1980s. Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Cooling Galleries include Charles Henry Baskett, John Farleigh, Barbara Helen Gilligan, Sybil Hamilton Hastings, Jayne Pope, Algernon Mayow Talmage, Charles Julian Theodore Tharp, Tom Van Oss, Cor Visser and Frank Clifford Ward.
An unrelated gallery with the same name was open for a brief time in Cork Street, London in the early 1990s which was not related to the Cooling Galleries or to Newman & Cooling.
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