# COOKE, George [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1781–1834 - Profession: painter - School: English ## Biography English engraver, part of a family of artists, father of the painter Edward William Cooke. He was a skilled engraver who numbered John Sell Cotman, Augustus Wall Callcott and Clarkson Stanfield among his friends and whose engraved publications included The Thames \(1811\), The Botanical Cabinet \(1817-33\) and London and its Vicinity \(1826-8\). He is chiefly remembered today for The Southern Coast of England \(1814-26\), which he produced jointly with his brother William Bernard Cooke \(1778-1855\) and which contained 40 plates after watercolours by J. M. W. Turner and 40 by artists such as William Westall, Peter De Wint and William Collins. ## Related artworks - [Dover from Shakespeare Cliff]() - [Phlox carnea \(Loddiges 111\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()