Thomas Matthews Rooke

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A Vanished Corner of Old Chiswick, 1896
The Lychgate, 1873

Thomas Matthews Rooke (1842, London – 1942, London) was a British watercolourist. He worked as a designer, as an assistant to other artists, and was commissioned by John Ruskin to make architectural drawings.[1]

Life

Ruskin hired Rooke from Morris & Co. in 1879, and Rooke was still paid by him eight years later.[2] In 1884 he was painting Italian architecture. Ruskin's project aimed to record threatened landscapes and buildings, and for it he also employed Frank Randal (1852–1917), and half a dozen others.[3][4]

In parallel Rooke was a studio assistant to

Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery.[5] He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.[6]

Family

Rooke married Leonora Jane Jones; the wood-engraver Noel Rooke was their son.[7]

Notes

  1. ISBN 1-85149-025-6
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  2. ISBN 978-1-905981-90-8
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  3. ISBN 978-1-55595-071-2
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  4. ISBN 978-1-78308-283-4. Mentioned are Angelo Alessandri, John Wharlton Bunney, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Fairfax Murray, and Henry Roderick Newman
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  5. ISBN 978-0-300-09099-4
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  6. OCLC 193146366
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  7. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69374. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)

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