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 5 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:
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| 1849 The River Dargle, Co Wicklow Ireland 10 October 1849 pencil 12.1 x 17.3 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1850 Dutch fishing station details not found |
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| 1850 Dutch saw mill and shipping on the Zuyder Zee oil on panel 27.3 x 37.6 cm Dover Collections, UK |
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| 1850 View across the Lagoon, Venice, sunset oil on paper laid on canvas 29.8 x 43.8 cm |
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| c1850 A Hastings lugger with fishermen repairing nets oil possibly on card laid down on canvas 19 x 36 cm |
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| c1850 Back view of a 19th Century Bugler pencil 23.9 x 15.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1850 Detailed sketch of a plough and yoke mixed media 11.6 x 19.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1850 Dieppe graphite on ivory wove paper 11.9 x 15.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1850 Dutch boats in the calm oil on board 37 x 49 cm North Lincolnshire Museums Service, UK |
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| c1850 Edam graphite on ivory wove paper 11.4 x 17.6 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1850 Outcrop of rocks pencil and watercolour 14.4 x 24.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1850 Stone bridge in mountain country pencil 15.3 x 24.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1850 Wood and stone bridge mixed media 17.1 x 25.6 cm (mount) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1851 On the Bacino di San Marco, Venice oil on canvas 31 x 45 cm Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1851 St Mark's Square Venice 16 September 1851 pencil 23.7 x 15.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1851 Sunset behind Santa Maria della Salute, Venice oil on canvas 44.5 x 75 cm |
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| 1851 Venetian Vedute with the Church of Santa Maria della Salute oil on canvas 44 x 76 cm |
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| 1852 Venice, Santa Maria della Salute at Sunset details not found |
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| 1855 Venice, sunset behind the Church of Santa Maria della Salute oil on paper laid on canvas 28 x 45 cm |
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| n.d. Sunset, Venice, Santa Maria della Salute in the distance oil on board 32 43 cm |
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| Santa Maria della Salute, Evening details not found |
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| 1852 San Giorgio Maggiore and the Salute, Venice oil on canvas 70 x 107.5 cm National Trust, Cragside, Rothbury, UK |
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| 1853 A Barge off Deal in stormy weather oil on canvas 33 x 170 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1853 Dutch Pincks off Katwijk oil on canvas 55 x 94 cm |
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| 1853 Evening on the lagoon, from L'Isola San Servolo, Venice oil on canvas 39.4 x 66.7 cm |
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| 1853 Gondola, Venice October 1853 pencil 6.7 x 11.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1853 Looking from the Lagoon towards the Giudecca oil on paper laid down on canvas 28 x 44.5 cm |
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| 1853 Panoramic view of Stockholm 26 July 1853 (left page) pencil 25.9 x 41.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1853 Stockholm, a view across the harbour with timber pounds, towards Carl Johan church on Skeppsholmen 25 July 1853 pencil 27.5 x 41.6 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1853 Up Channel watercolour over traces of pencil 13 x 18.5 cm |
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| 1854 Selling fish, Scheveling beach oil on board 34.5 x 50 cm |
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| 1854 Fisherfolk unloading fishing boats on a beach oil on canvas 43.2 x 89.5 cm |
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| 1854 Dutch Barges near a beach oil on panel 29 x 104 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1854 Dieppe pencil 16 x 11 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1854 Canal Scene, Porto Del Lido, Venice oil on canvas 61 x 122 cm Bury Art Museum, UK |
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| 1855 A North Sea breeze on the Dutch coast oil on canvas? 106.6 x 167.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| before 1855 The Armenian Convent, Venice oil on canvas 27.3 x 45.5 cm |
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| 1855 Old Draining Mill in the Huntingdonshire Fens oil on canvas 63.5 x 101 cm Norris Museum, St Ives, UK |
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| 1855 The Mail Boat leaving Calais October 1855 pencil 19 x 26 cm V&A, London |
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| 1856 Bonchurch, Isle of Wight 11 October 1856 pencil 16.5 x 26.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1856 Dutch Pincks Arriving details not found |
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| 1856 Lowestoft 21 October 1856 (Beach huts made from upended boats) pencil 12.8 x 24.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1856 Lowestoft lighthouse October 1856 pencil 23.8 x 34.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1856 Violent Squall on the Adriatic oil on canvas The Mariners’ Museum and Park, Newport News, VA |
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| 1856 Wreck of a Schooner off pier head Gorleston 23 October 1856 pencil 15.5 x 24.6 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1856 Wreck of the 'Coromandel' at Yarmouth October 1856 pencil 23 x 34.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1857 A pair of Topi 5 November 1857 pencil 8.1 x 18.3 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1857 A pair of Topi 22 September 1857 Venice pencil 6.6 x 9.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| before 1857 Chub oil on millboard 38.1 x 50.8 cm V&A, London |
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| 1857 Bragozzo October 19 1857 pencil 23.3 x 15.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1857 Canal of the Giudecca, Venice oil on canvas 90.2 x 139.7 cm Tate, London |
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| 1857 Moonlight. 11 o'clock PM 3 October 1857 pencil 17.2 x 25.4 cm |
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| 1857 Scheveling Pinck pencil 18 x 26 cm |
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| 1857 Topi, ' Murano ' with details of fishing gear 2 October 1857 pencil 26 x 18.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1857 Venetian fishing craft off the Adriatic shore of the Lido oil on panel 29.2 x 43.1 cm Museums Sheffield, UK |
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| 1831 The 'Dreadnought', 104 Guns, at present lying off Greenwich for the Seamen's Hospital print16.5 x 23.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| c1857 The Dreadnought, 104 Guns, until recently lying off Greenwich print 16.2 x 23.9 cm (mount) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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