Friday 20 May 2022

Edward William Cooke - part 3

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 3 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:


1835 Study of Armour
varnished watercolour (size not given)
V&A, London


1834 Wooden trug baskets, Hastings October 1834
pencil 10.2 x 15.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1834-35 Old Hastings
oil on millboard 25.4 x 25.6 cm
V&A, London

1835 A 'Stackie', Greenwich March 1835
watercolour 10.4 x 14 cm

1835 A fisherman's hut October 1835
pencil 19.7 x 30.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1835 Godstow Bridge near Oxford
oil on panel 24.1 x 34.3 cm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

1835 Hay Barge off Greenwich
oil on panel 35.1 x 53.3 cm

1835 Lobster Pots October 12 1835
watercolour study for 'Lobster Pots, Ventnor' (see below)
22.9 x 31.7 cm
V&A, London

1835 Lobster Pots, Ventnor
oil on canvas 39.4 x 53.3 cm V&A, London

1835 or before, Honfleur Fishing boats becalmed with Le Havre in the Distance
oil on panel 35.6 x 53.3 cm

1835 Sandford Weir
pencil 18.4 x 29.8 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA.

1835 Study for 'The Antiquary's Cell' (see below)
watercolour 17.8 x 21.7 cm
V&A, London

1835 The Antiquary's Cell
oil on panel 57.8 x 75.6 cm
V&A, London

1835 Windmills, Blackheath
oil on paper 17.8 x 28 cm
V&A, London

1835-42 Wier’s Paper Mill, near Oxford
oil on wood panel 25.2 x 35.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 A coastal brig alongside at St Helier, Jersey September 1836
pencil 22.2 x 17.7 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1836 A Dutch Galliot alongside at St Helier, Jersey 13 September 1836
pencil 16.5 x 11.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1836 A plough at Foster's Farm, Redleaf 19 April 1836
pencil 9.2 x 15.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

before 1836 Undercliff Cave, Isle of Wight
oil on canvas 41.9 x 52.1 cm
Tate, London

1836 Dieppe Fish Basket
watercolour 10.2 x 12.1 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA.

1836 Gathering Seaweed (Pier, Jersey)
details not found

1836 Grainville (Normandy) 20 September 1836
pencil 11.2 x 15.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1836 Mending the Bait-Nets, Shanklin
oil on canvas 41.9 x 78.7 cm
V&A, London

1836 Portsmouth Harbour; The Hulks
oil on panel 29.9 x 40.6 cm
V&A, London

1836 Semaphore at Portsmouth
oil on ? 33 x 40.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 A grindstone in the timber yard, Redleaf 4 August 1837
pencil 9.2 x 8.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 A Mackerel on the Seashore
oil on panel 17.3 x 25.4 cm
V&A, London

1837 Barney Grove, Redleaf August 1837
pencil 11.2 x 16.2 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1837 Brighton Sands
oil on canvas  54.6 x 76.2 cm
V&A, London

1837 De Johannes Hoogenraad 9 September 1837
pencil 18 x 11.5 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 De Yonge Kniertje. 11 September 1837
pencil 18 x 11.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 Four sketches 9 September 1837
pencil 17.5 x 11.7 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 Gosport, Flagship Saluting
print 20 x 24.1 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 Peckham's Cottage, Redleaf 26 July 1837
pencil 10.5 x 16 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1837 Peckham's Cottage, Redleaf
pencil 10.5 x 16.1 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1837 Pink and Haring buys beached stern on 13 September 1837
pencil 11.7 x 14.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1837 Redleaf, from the Bridge
pencil 10.5 x 17.1 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA.

1837 Riet or Rush Schuit, Rotterdam
pencil 10.5 xx 10.8 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 A four-wheeled cart with a pair of horses and a dog
pencil 9.5 x 16 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1838 A large clock tower, Hoorn 17 September 1838
pencil 12 x 17 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 A pair of horses and a cart loaded with ship's gear
pencil 10.2 x 18.5 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1838 Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall, Oct 3
pencil 15.4 x 23.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 Castles of Sternberg and Liebenstein on the Rhine, with a steam vessel July 1838
pencil 5.8 x 17.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1838 Church at Scheveningen
graphite on ivory wove paper 11.5 x 17.1 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1838 Egmond, a beach scene with a light tower and a beached vessel on rollers 22 September 1838
pencil 11 x 17.6 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 Loenen, Niewer Holk, the house of the artist's friend Mr Maes 3 August 1838
pencil 12.2 x 16.4 cm
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

1838 Marken 14 September 1838
pencil 11.5 x 17.1 cm (mount)
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 Mont Saint Michel, Normandy
oil on canvas 54.6 x 80 cm
V&A, London

1838 Pilot Boat Running into St Peter Port, Guernsey
oil on board 45 x 61 cm
Castle Coret, St Peter Port, Guernsey Museums & Galleries

1839 Boats on the beach at Hastings April 15 1839
pencil 14.6 x 22.9 cm
V&A, London

1839 Cup carved from the Horn of a Rhinoceros - China / Cocosa Nut tree
pencil 9.5 x 14.9 cm
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA.

1839 Fisherfolk on the shore
oil on canvas 24 x 91 cm

1839 Scheveningen Beach
oil on canvas 45.7 x 91.4 cm
Royal Holloway, University of London

1840 Dutch Pincks ashore, Scheveningen
oil on canvas 46 x 76 cm

1840 Heidelberg - Gate from the Bridge
pencil 17.1 x 12.3 cm
National Maritime Museum, London

1838 The upper floor of Rembrandt's father's mill:

1838 The upper floor of Rembrandt's father's mill, Koukerk
oil on panel 50 x 61 cm

1843 Rembrandt's father's mill
oil on panel 19.7 x 20 cm

Interior of Rembrandt's Father's Mill, Lower Chamber
details not found