Edward William Cooke - part 7

 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 7 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:

1861 View of the Alhambra, Spain
pencil on wove paper 22.3 x 34.3 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1861 View of the Bab el Kasbah from below, Tangier
pencil on wove aper 19 x 22.1 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1861 View of the ruined Moorish bridge, Granada
pencil on wove paper 22.2 x 34.4 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

c1861 Street scene, probably in Tangier
pencil on wove paper 22 x 34.3 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1862 A Trabaccolo waiting for the tide off the Armenian Convent, Lagoon of Venice, sunset
oil on canvas 19 x 38 cm

1862 Bella Venezia
pencil on wove paper 11.2 x 18 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1862 Opposite my house at Barnes
oil on panel 30.3 x 48.1 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

1862 The Bay of Tangier, Morocco
oil on canvas 102 x 168 cm
Salford Museum & Art Gallery, UK

1862 The Venetian Lagoon at sunset
oil on paper laid down on canvas 27.5 x 45.5 cm

1862 Venetian lagoons – sunset
oil on canvas 19.6 x 28.2 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1862 Venice, sunset after rain
oil on paper laid down on canvas 27.5 x 45 cm

1863 A Bauschuit with sails set ashore at Scheveningen
pencil and wash 17.7 x 24.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1863 A Boeier before a fresh breeze 21 August 1863 (Amsterdam)
pencil 10.4 x 17.2 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1863 Ancona 5 November 1863
pencil 11 x 18.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1863 Botter Xe on the Y near Amsterdam. Randorp Tower in the distance 18 August 1863
mixed media with pencil 17 x 24.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1863 Catalan Bay on the East Side of the Rock of Gibraltar
details not found

1863 Marsden Rocks, Durham 4 September 1863
pencil 10.6 x 18 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1863 The Canale della Giudecca with the Redentore beyond
oil on paper laid on canvas 28 x 45 cm

1863 The Dogana di Mare with San Giorgio Maggiore beyond
oil on paper laid down on canvas 26.5 x 44 cm

1864 Dover Pilot boat off the North Foreland
watercolour heightened with white 17 x 24.5 cm

1864 Naples from Mergellina with the Castel dell'Ovo and Vesuvius beyond
oil on canvas 44.4 x 91.4 cm

1864 Scheveningen Pincks off the Coast of Yarmouth
oil on canvas 90.2 x 137.2 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1864 Sunset on the Lagoon of Venice
oil on board 25.3 x 38 cm

1864 Sunset on the Lagoon of Venice, with the Church of Isola di San Giorgio in Alga in the distance
oil on paper laid down on canvas 29.5 x 45.1 cm

1864 Venice
oil on canvas (size not given)

1865 A Dutch Beurtman aground on the Terschelling Sands, in the North Sea after a snowstorm
oil on canvas 106.6 x 167.5 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London

1865 Broadstairs beach and cliff, 5 May 65
pencil 10.6 x 18 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1865 Fishing boats in the port of Genoa
oil on canvas 22.5 x 37.1 cm

1865 Isola della Certosa, in the Venetian Lagoon
oil on paper laid on canvas 31.7 x 48.3 cm

1865 The cliffs near Broadstairs, 5 May 65
pencil 10.7 x 18 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1866 A coastal view with fishing boats ashore
 (attributed to)
oil on canvas 25.4 x 45.7 cm

1866 Dutch Boats: Rough Sea with Scheveling Pinck getting off shore
oil on canvas 61 x 87.7 cm

n.d. Dutch Boats: Rough Sea with Scheveling Pinck getting off shore
oil on canvas (size not given)

1866 Triassic Cliffs, Blue Anchor, north Somerset
oil on canvas 42 x 66 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1867 Canal of the Giudecca, Venice
oil on canvas  90.2 x 139.7 cm
Tate, London

1869 A Venetian Bragozzi in heavy seas
pastel 15.8 x 24.7 cm

1869 French Sloop entering the harbour of Tréport
oil on canvas 81.3 x 134.6 cm

1869 Low Tide
pastel and pencil 17.1 x 25.4 cm

1869 Marine Scene
oil on canvas 76 x 128 cm

1869 Mending nets, Bay of Naples
oil on canvas 90.2 x 139.7 cm

1870 A calm day on the Scheldt
(details not found)

before 1870 Scenes in London Docks
pencil - crayon 19.1 x 14 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1871 Kynance Cove, the Lizard, Cornwall
oil on millboard 21.2 x 35 cm
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum, Bournemouth, UK

1871 The Pool of London December 1871
print 19.7 x 24.8 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1871 The Saddle Rock near Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland 24 August 1871
pencil 8.6 x 18.7 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1872 Danish craft on the Elbe, Blankenese, Germany, low water
oil on canvas 88 x 137 cm
Touchstones Rochdale, UK

1872 On the shore at Scheveling – low water
oil on millboard 23.2 x 31.5 cm
 Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1872 Windmills 24 July 1872
print (Autoytype process) 11.1 x 18.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1873 Steeple Rock, Kynance Cove, Lizard, Cornwall, low water
oil on canvas  90 x 139 cm

1873 Venetian fishing craft caught in a 'Borasca'
oil on canvas 88.3 x 139.4 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1873 View of fishing vessel, inscribed on stern Dieu L Prote Fecamp 18 September 1873
penci and wash 13.7 x 20.9 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1873-74 Pylons at Karnak, the Theban Mountains in the distance
oil on paper laid on board 14.4 x 36 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

1874 Cairo from Gezeerah. Looking S. (South)
pencil 7 x 21 cm
V&A, London

1874 Karnak, Egypt 17 March 1874
pencil 17.4 x 27.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1874 The Dahabieh Passing a Sandbank off Tourah
pencil on wove paper 13.2 x 20.7 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1874 The Mahmoodeeah Canal, Alexandria
pencil on wove paper 11.1 x 18.4 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1876 Philae "the Beautiful" at early morn, looking south
oil on panel 10.1 x 28.2 cm

n.d. Karnak, The Pylon and Propylon looking west
(details not found)