Isaac Cooper (1777-1841) was born in Rockland County, New York. In 1803, he opened a carving and gilding shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, where he made cornices and brackets as well as frames. The shop remained in the same location until his death. Cooper, who later advertised himself as a “Looking Glass and Picture Frame Maker and Gilder,” could claim more than one president as his customer. TJ placed an order with Cooper for framing six medals in 1802, and beginning in 1804 bought picture frames from him once a year until 1809 (David Cole and Walter Kenneth Griffin, Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Kakiat, Rockland Co., New York, 1774-1864 [New York, 1909], 5; National Intelligencer, 22 Apr. 1803; Daily National Intelligencer, 21 June, 14 July 1841; Washington Globe, 14 Oct. 1837; Cooper to Andrew Jackson, 15 Oct. 1837, in DLC: Andrew Jackson Papers; MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1155, 1182, 1214, 1228, 1242; Vol. 37:134n).

gilt frames: on 2 July, TJ gave Joseph Dougherty $15.50 “for Isaac Cooper for picture frames” (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1131).