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 9 of 11 on the works of Edward William Cooke:
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| n.d. Bragozzo (Venice) pencil 9.3 x 18.1 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Bragozzo (Venice) pencil 11.7 x 16.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Bragozzo (Venice) pencil 13.8 x 19.6 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Breaming a Sloop print 19.5 x 24.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Brig on Sands: Vessels on the Sands at Hastings oil on canvas 54.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| n.d. Bronze Vase - Redleaf pencil 14.3 x 9.5 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Calais (Two fisher girls) pencil 14.6 x 10.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Calais fishing boat No 36 pencil 17.5 x 12 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Calais fishing boat pencil 17.5 x 10.8 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Calm Dordrecht morning oil on canvas 68.5 x 99 cm |
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| n.d. Chub oil on millboard 38.1 x 50.8 cm V&A, London |
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| n.d. Coast Scene oil on panel 23 x 32.5 cm Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK |
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| n.d. Coast Scene with Fishing Boats (attributed to) oil on canvas 45.5 x 76 cm Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
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| n.d. Concordia, sketch of a Dutch vessel alongside a quay pencil 26.5 x 17.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Dordrecht, the Cathedral with vessels alongside the wharf pencil 23.5 x 32.2 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Drying the nets at Salerno, the mountains of Paestum in the distance oil on paper laid down to board 22 x 44 cm |
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| n.d. Dutch Botters on the Y near Amsterdam pencil 10.7 x 17.9 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Dutch Galliot mixed media 7.5 x 8.7 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Dutch Galliott St Peter Port Guernsey oil on canvas? 58.2 x 45.7 cm |
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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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| n.d. Enkhuysen pencil on white wove paper 11.1 x 17.8 cm Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT |
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| n.d. Entering the Port, Genova (Feluccas) pencil 20.1 x 13.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Entrance to the Giardini Pubblici, Venice pencil on wove paper 15.1 x 26 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| n.d. Exocetus volitans. Flying Fish. Amalfi medium? 12.3 x 22.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Fan Design pencil 15.2 x 27 cm (approx) V&A, London |
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| n.d. Fish arriving, Scheveningen beach oil on panel 15.2 x 20.6 cm |
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| n.d. Fisherfolk on a beach oil on canvas 30.4 x 45.7 cm |
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| n.d. Fishing vessels on shore, Scheveningen pencil 10.4 x 17.6 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Fishing vessels unloading, Scheveningen (August 30) pencil 10.3 x 16.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. French Sloop entering the harbour of Tréport oil on canvas 81.3 x 134.6 cm |
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| n.d. From my Gondola (Venice) pencil 12.2 x 15.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Genoa (Pair of yoked Bullocks) pencil 10.2 x 16.4 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Glen Druid, Ireland pencil 12.1 x 17 cm (approx) V&A, London |
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| n.d. Goodwin light ship pencil 17.6 x 24.8 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Gosport, Flag Ship Saluting etching 16 x 20 cm |
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| n.d. Gosport, Hampshire oil on canvas 45.5 x 61 cm Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, UK |
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| n.d. Havre (study of brooms) watercolour over pencil 9.5 x 12.1 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Isle of Wight pencil 10.2 x 16.5 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Jetty pencil 10.8 x 18.1 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Keeve's Hole pencil 16.4 x 27 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Landing Fish - Yarmouth Jetty pencil 7.7 x 11.5 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Landscape watercolour over pencil 17.8 x 12.4 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Man and a boy on a beach at sunrise mixed media 9.1 x 12.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Mt. Cenis pencil 6.7 x 12.1 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Newlyn, near Penzance, Cornwall etching with lithograph tint 12.5 x 18.5 cm |
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| n.d. Old Harry & his Wife, Studland Bay print 19.5 x 24.5 National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. On the beach at Scheveningen, Holland oil on canvas |
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| n.d. Outer Gate, Mt. St. Michel pencil 10.5 x 16.5 cm The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Gilbert Davis Collection, San Marino, CA |
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| n.d. Oyster boats at Billingsgate print 16.6 x 20.5 cm (plate) National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Passing the Booms, Amsterdam watercolour over pencil heightened with stopping out and gum arabic, on wove paper 21 x 31.5 cm |
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| n.d. Peninnis Head, St Mary's, Isle of Scilly pencil and watercolour 26.4 x 37.8 cm (mount) National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Rhubarb watercolour 12.1 x 15.1 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Rigging details of a topsail Schooner pencil 11 x 14.7 cm National Maritime Museum, London |
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| n.d. Rips, used by Shrimpers pen and brown ink and watercolour over graphite 9.5 x 13.7 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
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| n.d. Riva Schiavoni, Venice, from the house of Petrarch pencil on wove paper 17.5 x 26 cm Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| n.d. River Scene pencil and watercolour 17.7 29.2 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Row of terraced buildings mixed media 20.4 x 28.5 cm National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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| n.d. Rye - South Coast Near Hastings (attributed to) brush and grey wash, with touches of pen and grey ink and traces of graphite, on cream wove paper 24.1 x 34.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
