Ebenezer Wake Cook b. 1844

Also known as J. W. Cook, E. W. Cook
  • Artist (Photographer),
  • Artist (Painter)
Landscape painter and professional photographic colourist. Born in England and resident of Geelong and Melbourne, Victoria.

Citations

  • 'Anarchism in Art and Chaos in Criticism’.

  • Ruskin, John (1898), 'Stones of Venice’.

  • Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, A. G. (1987), 'A Biographical Register 1788-1939’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Kroeger, J. (1968), 'Renniks Australian Artists’, Adelaide, SA.

  • Moore, W. (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art’, Sydney, NSW : Angus and Robertson, (facsimile reprint 1980), 2 volumes.

  • Thomas, Daniel (1976), 'Australian Art in the 1870s’, Sydney, NSW : Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue.

  • Wood, C. (1971), 'Dictionary of Victorian Painters’, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK.

  • (1 January 1891), Australasian Critic.

  • (1903), Studio 28.

  • McCulloch, Alan (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic : Hutchinson of Australia (2nd edition).

  • (1924), 'Retrogression in Art and the Suicide of the Royal Academy’, London, England, UK : 2 volumes.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870