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Samuel Cook (artist)

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107: 93: 42:. At the age of nine he was apprenticed to a firm of woollen manufacturers in the town, where during the intervals of his duties he would amuse himself with making drawings in chalk on the floor of the factory, to the annoyance of his employers, one of whom declared that "he would never be fit for anything but a 73:
there was yet in them such quiet, simple truth, and so much real artistic feeling united with skilful manipulation, that it was impossible to study them and not be convinced they were the productions of one possessing refined taste, poetical conception, knowledge of natural effects, and sound
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in Water Colours (now the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours), to whose annual exhibition he became a regular contributor, chiefly of coastal scenes, until his death 1859.
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Always weak as a colourist, and especially so when his pictures hung in juxtaposition with some of the deeptoned works of his contemporaries...
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A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Recent and Living Painters and Engravers
154: 88: 35: 47: 39: 106: 51: 43: 46:". On the expiry of his apprenticeship he went to 74:judgment in the management of subject matter. 8: 125: 7: 50:, where he set up as a painter and 14: 223:19th-century English male artists 22:(1806–1859) was an English 105: 91: 139:. London: H. G. Bohn. p.  1: 203:19th-century English painters 239: 84:Victoria and Albert Museum 213:English watercolourists 56:New Society of Painters 133:Ottley, Henry (1866). 76: 218:People from Camelford 208:English male painters 69: 80:Stonehouse, Plymouth 113:Visual arts portal 34:He was born in at 82:by him is in the 230: 177: 176: 174: 172: 151: 145: 144: 130: 115: 110: 109: 101: 99:Biography portal 96: 95: 94: 238: 237: 233: 232: 231: 229: 228: 227: 183: 182: 181: 180: 170: 168: 160:The Art Journal 153: 152: 148: 132: 131: 127: 122: 111: 104: 97: 92: 90: 72: 64:The Art Journal 61:An obituary in 32: 17: 16:English painter 12: 11: 5: 236: 234: 226: 225: 220: 215: 210: 205: 200: 195: 185: 184: 179: 178: 146: 124: 123: 121: 118: 117: 116: 102: 31: 28: 15: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 235: 224: 221: 219: 216: 214: 211: 209: 206: 204: 201: 199: 196: 194: 191: 190: 188: 166: 162: 161: 156: 150: 147: 142: 138: 137: 129: 126: 119: 114: 108: 103: 100: 89: 87: 85: 81: 75: 68: 67:said of him: 66: 65: 59: 57: 53: 49: 45: 41: 37: 29: 27: 25: 21: 169:. Retrieved 164: 158: 149: 135: 128: 79: 77: 70: 62: 60: 33: 19: 18: 198:1859 deaths 193:1806 births 167:: 212. 1861 86:in London. 24:watercolour 20:Samuel Cook 187:Categories 155:"Obituary" 120:References 78:A view of 36:Camelford 48:Plymouth 40:Cornwall 26:artist. 171:29 June 52:glazier 44:limner 173:2011 30:Life 38:in 189:: 163:. 157:. 141:34 175:. 165:7 143:.

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