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Edward William Cooke, RA, British 1811-1880- Dutch fishermen warping their craft out of Broeckenhaven Harbour, Holland; oil on canvas, signed and dated 'E.W. Cooke. 1842.' (lower right), 76.6 x 122 cm. Provenance: with Owen Edgar Gallery, London. Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 27 November 2003, lot 394. Exhibited: London, Royal Academy of Arts, 'The seventy-fourth exhibition of the Royal Academy', 1842, no.510. Literature: Munday 42/2. Note: Edward William Cooke was born into an artistic family, the son of the engraver George Cooke (1781-1834). He was a talented child artist and by the age of nine was already executing wood engravings of plants for publication. At the age of fourteen he met Clarkson Stanfield, RA (1793-1867) and began a lifelong interest in sketching boats. He also began to study architecture under Augustus Pugin (1812-1852), but did not pursue this as he preferred marine subjects. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1851 and a full member in 1864. The other great interests in his life were botany and geology, and he was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society in 1857, Fellow of the Geological Society in 1862 and Fellow of the Royal Society (an unusual accolade for a painter) in 1863.