E.W.Cooke, R.A., F.R.S.: His Life and Work - Hardcover

Munday, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851492224 ISBN 13: 9781851492220

Publisher: ACC Art Books, 1999

Synopsis

This is a biographical study of the marine painter Edward William Cooke RA, FRS, FLS, FZS (1811-1880) who, as the letters after his name will indicate, had interests far beyond the coastal views and inshore shipping of Europe which were his main subjects on canvas. He emerges as a gardener and garden designer on a grand scale, a student of geology, a plantsman, botanical illustrator, humorist, antiquarian and collector. An exhibition of his work was held in 1970 at the Guildhall Art Gallery but the pictures shown were not a balanced reflection of Cooke's life's work. This book is, therefore, the occasion to gather together not only a more representative collection of paintings and drawings but also to point to the many-sided character of this man. He kept a diary, on which this book is based, which enables us to see where he was and what he was about almost every day of a working life spanning half a century. Today's collectors, especially those with nautical interests such as sailing and yachting, are great admirers of Cooke's work. His output was not vast, he exhibited some 250 paintings in London, and although a tentative 700 or so entries appear in the Checklist (which is the second part of this book), these range in size from 6 x 4 inches to 6 x 4 feet and not all have yet been found or positively identified.

About this title

About the Author

John Munday was a curator at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

Edition details

• Publisher: ACC Art Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851492224
• ISBN 13: 9781851492220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400