EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE (BRITISH, 1811- 1880)
Shipping scene
signed 'E.W Cooke' (lower right)
oil on canvas
41 x 69 cm

Provenance:

With The City Gallery where purchased by
Private Collection, U.K, thence by family decent

Edward William Cooke was born in London and was the son of the respected engraver Geroge Cooke. Edward was brought up in a family of artists, with his uncle, William Bernard Cooke (1778-1855) also a known engraver. From an early stage in his career, he displayed a love of marine subjects. At 18 years old he published a set of engravings titled ‘Shipping and Craft’. In 1834 Cooke started to work with oils and first exhibited at the Royal Academy and British Institution in 1835.