Edward William Cooke (1811–1880) was an English landscape and marine painter. He was born in London, the son of well-known line engraver George Cooke; his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778–1855), was also a line engraver of note, and Edward was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for marine subjects and published his "Shipping and Craft" when he was 18, in 1829. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835.
He went on to travel and paint with great industry at home and abroad, indulging his love of the 17th-century Dutch marine artists with a visit to the Netherlands in 1837. He returned regularly over the next 23 years, studying the effects of the coastal landscape and light, as well as the works of the country’s Old Masters, resulting in highly successful paintings. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Academician.
He also had serious natural history and geological interests, being a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Fellow of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Zoological Society, and of the Society of Antiquaries. In the 1840s he helped his friend, the horticulturist James Bateman to fit out and design the gardens at Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, in particular the orchids and rhododendrons. His geological interests in particular led to his election as Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863 and he became a Royal Academician the following year. In 1842 John Edward Gray named a species of boa, Corals cookii, in Cooke's honour.
This is part 2 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:
c1828-29 Shipping and Craft drawn and etched by Cooke:
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| 1828 Herring Boat at the Quay Great Yarmouth print 22.6 x 17.5 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1828 HMS Victory, First Rate. 104 Guns. Portsmouth Harbour print 27 x 32.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1829 Dutch Schuyt etc Blackwall Reach print 15.2 x 20.2 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1829 Prison-ship in Portsmouth Harbour with the convicts going on board pencil heightened with white 15.8 x 24 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1829 The Stationer's Barge December 1829 print 13.8 x 17.2 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London. |
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| 1829 Yarmouth Coble on the beach print 12.1 x 15.7 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 A British Naval Frigate? print 18.4 x 21 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 Barges on the Thames foreshore print 17.2 x 20.8 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 Brig of war. Dover print 16.8 x 20.7 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 Fishing boats. Brighton print 16.3 x 24.2 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 Frigate under all sail print 16.6 x 20.2 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1829 Sheer-hulk in Portsmouth Harbour print 17.4 x 17.5 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, London * * * * * |
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| 1830 Folkstone Oct 1 1830 pencil 9.5 x 13.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1830 Pevensey Bay from Fairlight April 1830 pencil 10.2 x 18.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1830 Station Ship of the Coastal Blockade - Rye 12 April 1830 pencil 14.2 x 22.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| c1830-31 The 'Dreadnought' off Greenwich 14.8 x 26.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1830 A fisherman's store cave near Southhampton pencil 11.1 x 10.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1830s The Rocky Beach and Cliffs at Fécamp watercolour on wove paper 18.7 x 28 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| before 1831 Old London Bridge print 31.4 x 40.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| before 1831 The Grampus Hospital ship lying off Deptford pencil 12.5 x 20.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1831 Custom House, Portsmouth pencil 6.7 x 10.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1831 Fisherman's Huts at Luccomb Chine, Isle of Wight July 3 1831 pencil 11.4 x 18.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1831 Luccomb Chine July 9 1831 pencil 13.8 x 18.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1831 Old London Bridge and the north bank of the Thames showing the church of St Magnus the Martyr and the Monument print 40.2 x 29.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1831 Puckaster Cover, Isle of Wight pencil 13.4 x 20 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1832 Demolition of the Great, or Chapel-Pier, of Old London Bridge etching on paper (after Cooke) 29.9 x 37.9 cm The Courtauld, London, London |
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| 1832 Reculvers Tower 8 July 1832 pencil 9 x 15.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 A group of vessels drying sails in Honfleur harbour 9 September 1833 pencil 23.4 x 17.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 A Houry of Fecamp, Havre pencil 25.4 x 17.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 Abbeville, France pencil and watercolour? 22.2 x 27.3 cm |
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| 1833 Baskets, Fecamp 13 September 1833 pencil (size not given) V&A, London |
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| 1833 Gravesend 26 June 1833 pencil 11 x 20.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 Details of the stern and after deck works of a Houry. Dieppe 17 September 1833 pencil 12.7 x 16.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 Fish Baskets (Fécamp/ Honfleur, Normandy) pencil (size not given) V&A, London |
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| 1833 Fish Baskets (Fécamp/ Honfleur, Normandy) pencil (size not given) V&A, London |
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| 1833 Fishing boats in Dieppe Harbour 13 September 1833 22.7 x 15.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 Fishing Vessels at Havre 30 August 1833 pencil 23.3 x 17.3 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 Grand Quai, Havre 2 September 1833 pencil 24 x 17.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 Hay Barge and Men of War on the Medway watercolour 40.5 x 55.7 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 Honfleur September 1833 pencil 24.5 x 19.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 Le Tour des Cloches, Honfleur 10 September 1833 pencil 23.9 x 14.4 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 Oyster Baskets (Fécamp- Honfleur, Normandy) pencil (size not given) V&A, London |
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| 1833 Ships of war in the Medway, off Sheerness watercolour 23.5 x 31.7 cm V&A, London |
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| 1833 The Quai and Petit Havre at Honfleur 11 September 1833 pencil 18.2 x 28.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1833 The Quay, Havre 5 September 1833 pencil 23.4 x 16.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1833 Washerwomen at Honfleur 7 September 1833 pencil 12.2 x 17.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1834 A lugger on the beach at Hastings, Oct 6 1834 pencil 10.9 x 14.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1834 Fishing boats with nets drying at Hastings, Oct 1834 pencil 9.8 x 16 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1834 Rue de la Tuile, Rouen watercolour 22 x 12 cm |
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| 1833 Boats at Honfleur pencil and watercolour, heightened with gum arabic 19.1 x 12.8 cm |
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| 1833 Honfleur Harbour, France December 1833 watercolour 24.5 x 17.5 cm |
1833 (published) Views Of The Old And New London Bridges
etchings published by Brown and Syrett, 17, Old Broad Street:
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| Arch of Old London-Bridge called Long-Entry-Lock |
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| Delapidation of the Long-Entry Arch, Old London Bridge engraving 33 x 42.5 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| Demolition of Old London Bridge engraving 32.7 x 42.2 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| Demolition of the Great Chapel Pier of Old London Bridge hand-coloured engraving 32.4 x 40.6 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven CT |
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| London Bridge from the Upper Landing of the Steps near Tooley Street hand-coloured engraving 36.5 x 27.3 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| Part of Old London-Bridge, St Magnus and the Monument hand-coloured engraving 40.5 x 29.7 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| Ruins of the Crypt, or Under Chapel, of St Thomas, on Old London Bridge engraving 24.4 x 29.5 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven CT |
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| Steps of New London Bridge, St. Magnus, the Monument and Part of Old Bridge hand-coloured engraving 37 x 31.8 cm Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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