Edward William Cooke
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Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.
Life and work
BearbeitenCooke was born in Pentonville, London. His father George and uncle, William Bernard, were both well-known engravers and Cooke was raised in their wide artistic circle. 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' – a series of accomplished engravings – when he was 18, in 1829. He benefited from the advice of many of his father’s associates, notably Clarkson Stanfield (whose principal marine follower he became) and David Roberts. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, took formal lessons from James Stark in 1834 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835, by which time his style was essentially formed.
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 Holland 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. These included 'Beaching a Pink at Scheveningen' (National Maritime Museum, London), which he exhibited in 1855 at the Royal Academy, of which he was an Associate from 1851. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa and, above all, to Venice.[1]
Cooke was "particularly attracted by the Isle of Wight, and on his formative visit of 1835 he made a thorough study of its fishing boats and lobster pots; above all he delighted in the beaches strewn with rocks of various kinds, fishing tackle, breakwaters and small timber-propped jetties."
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 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.
See also
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BearbeitenBibliography
Bearbeiten- Cooke, E. W. Fifty plates of shipping and craft (London, 1829).
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- John Munday. Edward William Cooke RA, FRS, FSA, FLS, FZS, FGS: 1811-1880: a man of his time (Antique Collectors’ Club, 1996).
- Tim Barringer, Mary Cowling, T. J. Barringer. Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London (Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2008) p197.
External links
Bearbeiten- E W Cooke online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Biography (National Maritime Museum - 19 Oct 2010)
- Art by E W Cooke (RA Collections - mostly pencil drwings)
- Art by E W Cooke (Art Renewal Center Museum)
- Paintings by E W Cooke (Bridgeman Art Library)
- Rembrandt's father's mill (Sotheby's)
- Venice (Christie's)
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- ↑ Biography of E W Cooke (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)