Edward William Cooke - part 8

 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 8 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:

1874 Mountains of Gebel Sheyk, Embarak 6 February 1874
pencil 27.5 x 18.3 cm
V&A, London

1874 Philae Nubia December 21 1874
pencil 12.2 x 21 cm
V&A, London

1874 Pigeon Houses, Mutaneh near Esneh on the Nile 7 March 1874
oil on board 26.7 x 41.3 cm

1874 Rembrandt's old Mill
ink and wash on paper 10.8 x 17.8 cm

1874 Starting point of the Dahabeeahs January 21 1874
pencil 18.4 x 11.5 cm
V&A, London

1874 Temple of Luxor, Egypt, with the Mosque of Abu'l Haggag 16 March 1874
pencil 14.5 x 18.2 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

1875 Chalk cliffs at Freshwater Gate. I of W 6 October 1875
(Isle of Wight)
  pencil 12.5 x 25.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1875 Cypress trees at Betteshanger 26 July 1875
pencil 13.4 x 6.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1875 Dutch Boats in a calm water
watercolour (details not found)

1875 HM Turret Ship 'Devastation' at Spithead on the occasion of the Naval Review in honour of the Shah of Persia, 23rd June 1873
oil on canvas 19.7 x 205.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

c1875 The Discovery Barque
pencil - crayon 27.3 x 18.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1876 A bit of Bonchurch in the Olden Time
oil on canvas 61.5 x 46.3 cm

1876 Calm on Zuider Zee
oil on canvas 91.5 x 139.8 cm

1876 Evening Eckmeen left Bank of the Nile
pencil 13 x 17.5 cm
V&A, London

1876 Het Sasse Poort, Zwolle
pencil on white wove paper 20.5 x 13.6 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1876 On the coast of Cornwall (fishing village)
watercolour 39 x 60 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1876 The old Mill, Kirby Bellars, Leicester
oil on canvas 24.1 x 39.4 cm
Leicester Museums and Galleries, UK

1877 View of Venice
pencil on wove paper 17.8 x 26.9 cm
Royal Academy of Arts, London

1878 A Dutch Galliot aground on a sandbank on the Biesbosch, the Netherlands
oil on canvas 89 x 138 cm
The Wilson, Cheltenham, UK

1878 Old Caloges Etretat. 16 Sept 1878
pencil 13.6 x 20.9 (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1878 The Cleopatra Cylinder Vessel
oil on canvas 87.6 x 137.2 cm
V&A, London

1879 A Village Scene
oil on panel 19.7 x 24.8 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

1880 Figures on a rocky shore, Craig Mallin, Isle of Man
oil on canvas 30.5 x 40.5 cm

1883 The olden times: Feeding the ducks and feeding
the hens
oil on panel 20.3 x 26 cm

1894 Ragdale Old Hall, Leicestershire
oil on board 25.5 x 36.5 cm

1898 Withycombe Mill, Devon
oil on canvas 60.2 x 50 cm
Exmouth Library, UK

1975 Luccumbe (Isle of Wight)
pencil 12.8 x 17.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1976 Nile boats in a northern wind
pencil 13.3 x 20.7 cm
V&A, London

n.d, Square tower with a look-out
pencil 13.6 x 21.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A barge alongside a jetty
pencil 11.8 x 19.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A barge at low water unloading at Barnes
pencil 12.6 x 15.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. A Brig of War's 12 Pr Carronade
print 15.6 x 19.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A Canal scene with Barges
(inscribed "This is the first coloured sketch from nature made by E W Cooke")
pencil and watercolour 12.6 x 19.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. A cliff on a beach supported and fenced by baulks of timber, near Dover
mixed media 13 x 17.9 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A coastal view with fishing boats ashore
oil on canvas 25.4 x 45.7 cm

n.d. A Harbour scene with fishing boat
oil on panel 24 x 34.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. A Mediterranean beach scene
oil on paper 25.5 x 35.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. A sailing ship and boat
pencil 16.6 x 18.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A steaming box in London Docks
pencil 9 x 15.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. A study of a Galliot under full sail with one starb'd bow view and one starb'd side
pencil and watercolour 9.6 x 15.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. A Wijdschip and a Kaag under sail in a very light air
oil on millboard 46.4 x 85.2 cm

n.d. A windmill at the Hague
pencil 10.6 x 17.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Alicante
oil on canvas 26.7 x 39 cm

n.d. Amalfi
pencil 17.1 x 10.8 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. An armed vessel careened on the beach with its cannon ashore and workers cleaning its hull
pencil, pen and brown and black ink and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 36.3 cm

n.d. An old pear tree at Mr Austen's house, Horsmonden
pencil 22 x 15.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Atrani
pencil 17.5 x 21 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. Barge and Canal Boats on the Thames
watercolour over pencil with touches of bodycolour and scratching out 21.6 x 33.7 cm

n.d. Barney Grove, Rocks below
pencil 10.8 x 16.8 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA

n.d. Bears
pencil 18.5 x 23.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

n.d. Blankenese on the Elbe, Denmark
pencil 15 x 24.5 cm

n.d. Boats moored at Dieppe Harbour: Low Tide
pencil and watercolour with scratching out 16.2 x 25.4 cm

n.d. Boats of Scheveningen (attributed to)
oil on canvas 71 x 127 cm

n.d. Boats on the Venetian Lagoon
oil on canvas 11.5 x 21.5 cm

n.d. Bomb proof battery near Gillingham, on the Medway
watercolour, gouache and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper 21.9 x 31.4 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

n.d. Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
oil on panel 20.3 x 29.2 cm

n.d. Bow of Rascono, Guidecca
pencil 10.9 x 18.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

n.d. Bolsena
pencil 12.1 x 8.6 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA