Edward William Cooke
A pilot boat off the North Foreland
Oil on board
18 x 29cm; 7 x 11½in
Private collection
A pilot boat is used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.
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. Cooke was
born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. 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. Cooke began painting in oils in 1833, 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 the Netherlands 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. He went on to travel in Scandinavia, Spain, North Africa
and, above all, to Venice. In 1858, he was elected into the National Academy of
Design as an Honorary Academician. . More
Edward William Cooke
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