Edward William Cooke
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Edward William Cooke
Life and work
Cooke was born in
Remarkably of his few drawings of ships, boats, and coastal views appear in the childhood albums of Edward William Cooke since age of four. Many of his earlier drawings are seemed to favor Dutch pastoral landscapes and animal subjects. Numerous of his drawings are influenced by Nicolaes Berghem [Berchem], Paulus Potter, or Karel Dujardin.[1]
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
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
In 1842 John Edward Gray named a species of boa, Corallus cookii, in Cooke's honor.[3]
Publications
- Cooke, E.W. (1829). Fifty plates of shipping and craft London.
References
- ^ "Childhood drawings by Edward William Cooke on Royal Museums Greenwich".
- ^ Biography of Edward William Cooke Archived 12 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Corallus cookii, p. 58).
Further reading
- Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1887). "Cooke, Edward William". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 80–81.
- Munday, John (1996). Edward William Cooke RA, FRS, FSA, FLS, FZS, FGS: 1811-1880: A Man of his Time. Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-222-4.
- ISBN 0-7112-2927-9. (p. 197).
External links
- 66 artworks by or after Edward William Cooke at the Art UK site
- E W Cooke online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Biography (National Maritime Museum - 19 Oct 2010)
- Art by E W Cooke (RA Collections - mostly pencil drawings)
- Art by E W Cooke (Art Renewal Center Museum)
- Paintings by E W Cooke (Bridgeman Art Library)
- Rembrandt's father's mill[permanent dead link] (Sotheby's)
- Venice (Christie's)
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