ART & ARTISTS: Edward William Cooke

Monday, 6 June 2022

Edward William Cooke - part 10

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 10 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:

n.d. Two Donkeys
(after Karel du Jardin - see below)
pencil 11.1 x 15.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1652 Karel Dujardin: Two Donkeys
etching on laid paper 14.8 x 13.3 cm (plate)

n.d. Sailing ships on calm water
mixed media 9.2 x 12.3 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. Sailing with net drying
pencil 10.4 x 11.7 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. Saint Peter Port, Guernsey
pencil 21 x 18.4 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. Scheveningen
oil on board 30 x 45.5 cm

n.d. Seascape
oil on canvas 59 x 105 cm
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, UK

n.d. Second Gate, Mt. St. Michel
pencil 10.8 x 15.9 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. Shipping at the mouth of the Thames
watercolour 15 x 22 cm

n.d. Shipping in calm water
mixed media 11.5 x 15.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. Shipping on rough seas
oil on canvas 45.8 x 61 cm

n.d. Ships at Sea
oil on canvas 96 x 134 cm
Wigan Arts and Heritage Service, UK

n.d. Ships at sea
oil on canvas 96 x 134 cm
Wigan Arts and Heritage Service, UK

n.d. Stern view of decorated barge
pencil 19.6 x 14.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Studies of Armour
pencil 20.6 x 25.7 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. Study for the shipping and craft engraving of a Prussian snow and a sketch of a cutter
pencil 14.2 x 16.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. Study of a Beached Pinck
watercolour 25.7 x 16 cm

n.d. Study of a Hippocamp
pencil on buff paper heightened with white chalk 19 x 27 cm

n.d. Sunset at Le Havre
oil on board 11.5 x 25 cm
Wolverhampton Art, UK

n.d. Sunset on the lagoon of Venice, with the church of Isola di San Giorgio in Alga in the distance
oil on paper laid onto canvas 29.5 x 45.1 cm

n.d. Sunset, Venice, Santa Maria della Salute in the distance
oil on board 32 x 43 cm

n.d. Teddington Lasher (Weir)
pencil 15.7 x 24.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Terracina
pencil 10.8 x 17.8 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. The Boathouse
print 27.7 x 36.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. The catch coming in
graphite on ivory wove paper 10.8 x 17.9 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

n.d. The Church of the Gesuati and Riva delle Zattere, with San Giorgio Maggiore looking east
oil on canvas 27.9 x 45.6 cm

n.d. The Dogana, looking towards San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
oil on paper laid down on canvas 25.4 x 50.2 cm

n.d. The Evening Cloud - Venice
print 10.9 x 17.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. The Monte Rosa chain of mountains from Gornergrat
pencil 18.5 x 25.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. The Piazzetta of St Mark, Venice
oil on canvas 80 x 66 cm

n.d. The pier and bay of St. Ives, Cornwall
oil on canvas 90.2 x 126.7 cm

n.d. The sheer hulk, Portsmouth
pencil 17.2 x 22.8 cm

n.d. The Simoom troop-ship. Portsmouth
pencil 18.1 x 25.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. The Trap Dyke, Great Cumbrae
pencil 11 x 18.4 cm (approx)
V&A, London

n.d. A Squall - Trouville Fishing Boats Making for Calais
( details not found )

n.d. Alassio, the Island of Gallinaria in the Distance
( details not found )

n.d. Amalfi from the Convent
( details not found )

n.d. Amsterdam from Buiksloot Creek
( details not found )

n.d. Bragozzi off the Ponte Ca-di-Dio
( details not found )

n.d. Bragozzi, the fishing craft of Venice
( details not found )

n.d. Breezy Day - Scheveling Landing the Catch
( details not found )

n.d. Canal of Orphans, Venice
( details not found )

n.d. Cartagena, Spain
( details not found )