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 6 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:
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| 1858 A Beached fishing vessel unloading it's catch oil on panel 33.5 x 52.2 cm |
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| 1858 A Dutch Peon running for the port of Harlington oil on canvas 107 x 171.5 cm |
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| 1858 A fishing fleet in the Bay of Naples at dusk oil on paper 12.4 x 35 cm |
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| 1858 Boat, near Venice oil on canvas 27.9 x 40 cm Tate, London |
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| 1858 Bridge of Sighs, Venice oil on canvas 81.5 x 67.5 cm |
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| 1858 Felucca off Naples July 1858 8.9 x 16.4 cm V&A, London |
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| 1858 Fishing boats in a calm harbour oil on canvas 90.8 x 139.1 cm |
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| 1858 On the beach at Beer, Devon pencil on wove paper 17.7 x 25.7 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1858 Part of the island of San Pietro, Castello, Venice oil on canvas 29 x 43 cm |
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| 1858 Sailing barges off shore July 1858 pencil 11.5 x 16.7 cm (approx) V&A, London |
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| 1858 Slate Quarry 29 June 1858 pencil 26 x 18.4 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| 1858 The Fishing Cove of Beer details not found |
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| 1858 The Giardini Pubblici, Venice pencil (size not given) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1858 The Matterhorn & glacier from the Riffel-Berg 18 September 1858 pencil 18.5 x 26.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1858 Up Channel watercolour (details not found) |
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| 1858 Venice by moonlight pencil on wove paper 15.3 x 23.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1859 A beach scene near the Bass Rock, near Berwick 3 September 1859 pencil 16.9 x 26 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1859 Broadstairs June 14 1859 pencil 14.9 x 18.1 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| 1859 Folkestone harbour entrance with lighthouse and ladies in crinolines with parasols (18 June 1859) pencil 18.5 x 26.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1859 Kilmorry Castle, Sir John Ord 11 October 1859 pencil 10.6 x 17.6 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1859 Near the Bass Rock 3 September 1859 pencil 16.7 x 25.9 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1859 Rubislaw Quarry, Aberdeen - just after the blast September 20 1859 pencil 18.4 x 25.5 cm (approx) V&A, London |
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| 1859 Trabaccoli carrying wood, San Giorgio Maggiore and the Dogana, Venice oil on canvas 62.5 x 104.5 cm |
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| 1860 A Dutch Galliot entering Aberdeen harbour in a storm oil on canvas 104.5 x 165 cm Grimsby Fishing Heritage Centre, UK |
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| 1860 Alicante 24 December 1860 pencil 18 x 27 cm V&A, London |
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| 1860 Bella Venezia oil on canvas 89.9 x 139.1 cm |
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| 1860 Cloister of the Cathedral, Tortosa pencil on wove paper 26.7 x 18.3 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1860 Dutch Pincks at Scheveningen, Holland oil on canvas 67 x 108 cm Guildhall Art Gallery, UK |
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| n.d. Dutch Pincks beached on the shore at Scheveningen oil on canvas 63.5 x 96.5 cm |
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| 1860 On the Nile oil on canvas 36.2 x 59.7 cm Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, CT |
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| 1860 San Giorgio Island with the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore looking towards the Lagoon watercolour heightened with white 34.5 x 30 cm |
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| 1860 Santa Lucia, Cartagena, sunset 29 December 1860 pencil 9.4 x 22.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1860 Tarragona 2 November 1860 pencil 10.9 x 17.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1860 The Piazzetta, Venice oil on canvas 81.5 x 68.9 cm Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, UK |
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| n.d. The Doge's Palace, Venice oil on canvas 130 x 105 cm Somerset Heritage Centre, Taunton, UK |
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| 1860 Valentia Bay, Ireland oil on canvas 39.5 x 65.5 cm Bury Art Museum, UK |
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| 1860 Venice from the Lagoon oil on canvas 54 x 107.5 cm |
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| c1860 Cartagena from Santa Lucia pencil on wove paper 14.9 x 26.4 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1860 Santa Lucia, Cartagena, Sunset 29 December 1860 pencil 9.4 x 22.2 cm |
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| Cartagena from Santa Lucia oil (details not found) |
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| 1861 'Porter's anchor improved Trotman' S.S. Delta 8 April 1861 pencil 10.7 x 18 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| 1861 A beached boat (No.30) in Catalan Bay, Gibraltar pencil 20.9 x 33.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 Alicante oil on canvas 26-7 x 39 cm |
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| 1861 Exmouth Harbour, Devon, low water oil on canvas 66.6 x 107.3 cm |
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| 1861 Beer Head and White Cliff at Low Water oil on canvas 43 x 67.5 cm |
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| before 1861On the Quai, Le Havre pencil and watercolour 25.4 x 20.3 cm |
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| 1861 Jamel, male camel in the Sok Zraa, Tangier pencil on wove paper 21.7 x 17.1 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1861 Forecastle Pivot Gun of the Immortalite solid 68 pounder 95cwt, bore 8in diameter pencil 22.2 x 34.3 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 Il Vesuvio January 16 1861 pencil17 x 26.7 cm (approx) V&A, London |
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| 1861 Immortalite Gibraltar 4 Apr 1861 pencil 10.6 x 17.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 Light House, entrance to Cartagena Harbour 2 January 1861 pencil 13.8 x 22.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 Return to Port, Malaga (To Mrs Edward Holley on her Bithday 1861) pencil 18.4 x 26.7 cm V&A, London |
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| 1861 Sok, Tangier 1 March 1861 pencil 6.9 x 11.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 The Moorish Aqueduct in the Alhambra pencil on wove paper 32.7 x 22.2 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1861 The Seashore at Bonchurch, Isle of Wight oil on paper laid down on canvas 20.4 x 36 cm |
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| 1861 The Torre de la Vela from the Vermillion Towers pencil on wove paper 18.5 x 26.7 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| 1861 Torre Molinos 26 March 1861 pencil 11.1 x 10.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| 1861 View near Malaga, Spain pencil on wove paper 10.5 x 17.7 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |