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:
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| 1835 Study of Armour varnished watercolour (size not given) V&A, London |
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| 1834 Wooden trug baskets, Hastings October 1834 pencil 10.2 x 15.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1834-35 Old Hastings oil on millboard 25.4 x 25.6 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835 A 'Stackie', Greenwich March 1835 watercolour 10.4 x 14 cm |
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| 1835 A fisherman's hut October 1835 pencil 19.7 x 30.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1835 Godstow Bridge near Oxford oil on panel 24.1 x 34.3 cm Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| 1835 Hay Barge off Greenwich oil on panel 35.1 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1835 Lobster Pots October 12 1835 watercolour study for 'Lobster Pots, Ventnor' (see below) 22.9 x 31.7 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835 Lobster Pots, Ventnor oil on canvas 39.4 x 53.3 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835 or before, Honfleur Fishing boats becalmed with Le Havre in the Distance oil on panel 35.6 x 53.3 cm |
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| 1835 Sandford Weir pencil 18.4 x 29.8 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA. |
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| 1835 Study for 'The Antiquary's Cell' (see below) watercolour 17.8 x 21.7 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835 The Antiquary's Cell oil on panel 57.8 x 75.6 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835 Windmills, Blackheath oil on paper 17.8 x 28 cm V&A, London |
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| 1835-42 Wier’s Paper Mill, near Oxford oil on wood panel 25.2 x 35.1 cm Tate, London |
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| 1836 A coastal brig alongside at St Helier, Jersey September 1836 pencil 22.2 x 17.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1836 A Dutch Galliot alongside at St Helier, Jersey 13 September 1836 pencil 16.5 x 11.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1836 A plough at Foster's Farm, Redleaf 19 April 1836 pencil 9.2 x 15.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| before 1836 Undercliff Cave, Isle of Wight oil on canvas 41.9 x 52.1 cm Tate, London |
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| 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. |
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| 1836 Gathering Seaweed (Pier, Jersey) details not found |
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| 1836 Grainville (Normandy) 20 September 1836 pencil 11.2 x 15.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1836 Mending the Bait-Nets, Shanklin oil on canvas 41.9 x 78.7 cm V&A, London |
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| 1836 Portsmouth Harbour; The Hulks oil on panel 29.9 x 40.6 cm V&A, London |
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| 1836 Semaphore at Portsmouth oil on ? 33 x 40.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 A grindstone in the timber yard, Redleaf 4 August 1837 pencil 9.2 x 8.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 A Mackerel on the Seashore oil on panel 17.3 x 25.4 cm V&A, London |
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| 1837 Barney Grove, Redleaf August 1837 pencil 11.2 x 16.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1837 Brighton Sands oil on canvas 54.6 x 76.2 cm V&A, London |
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| 1837 De Johannes Hoogenraad 9 September 1837 pencil 18 x 11.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 De Yonge Kniertje. 11 September 1837 pencil 18 x 11.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 Four sketches 9 September 1837 pencil 17.5 x 11.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 Gosport, Flagship Saluting print 20 x 24.1 cm (mount) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1837 Peckham's Cottage, Redleaf 26 July 1837 pencil 10.5 x 16 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1837 Peckham's Cottage, Redleaf pencil 10.5 x 16.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1837 Pink and Haring buys beached stern on 13 September 1837 pencil 11.7 x 14.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 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. |
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| 1837 Riet or Rush Schuit, Rotterdam pencil 10.5 xx 10.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1838 A four-wheeled cart with a pair of horses and a dog pencil 9.5 x 16 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1838 A large clock tower, Hoorn 17 September 1838 pencil 12 x 17 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 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 |
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| 1838 Botallack Mine, St Just, Cornwall, Oct 3 pencil 15.4 x 23.6 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 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 |
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| 1838 Church at Scheveningen graphite on ivory wove paper 11.5 x 17.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1838 Marken 14 September 1838 pencil 11.5 x 17.1 cm (mount) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1838 Mont Saint Michel, Normandy oil on canvas 54.6 x 80 cm V&A, London |
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| 1838 Pilot Boat Running into St Peter Port, Guernsey oil on board 45 x 61 cm Castle Coret, St Peter Port, Guernsey Museums & Galleries |
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| 1839 Boats on the beach at Hastings April 15 1839 pencil 14.6 x 22.9 cm V&A, London |
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| 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. |
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| 1839 Fisherfolk on the shore oil on canvas 24 x 91 cm |
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| 1839 Scheveningen Beach oil on canvas 45.7 x 91.4 cm Royal Holloway, University of London |
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| 1840 Dutch Pincks ashore, Scheveningen oil on canvas 46 x 76 cm |
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| 1840 Heidelberg - Gate from the Bridge pencil 17.1 x 12.3 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1838 The upper floor of Rembrandt's father's mill, Koukerk oil on panel 50 x 61 cm |
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| 1843 Rembrandt's father's mill oil on panel 19.7 x 20 cm |
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| Interior of Rembrandt's Father's Mill, Lower Chamber details not found |