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Samuel Cocks b. 11 November 1870

Also known as S. Cocks

Artist (Painter),
Artist (Photographer)

Landscape painter in watercolour and professional photographer based in Kiama, New South Wales active from 1890-1930s. Cocks exhibited with the Society of Artists in 1895 and was winning prizes for his photography by 1896. He became one of the most active recorders of Kiama and surrounding districts. A large archive of negatives and prints survives.

Citations

'NSW Death Records : 9348/1948; 13888/1912; 37/1939’.
(1890), Sydney Morning Herald, 01-08, p. 8.
(1890), Illustrated Sydney News, 01-22, p. 22.
Information sourced from Anderson, Ingrid.
Information sourced from Deakin, Edwina.
Photograms of the Year Dawbarn, London, 1900 pp 45,49,illus p.46
https://archive.org/stream/photogramsofyear00unse/photogramsofyear00unse_djvu.txt
Photograms of the Year , 1904 p.32
Robyn Florence and Graham Harmer, The man behind the camera Samuel Cocks artist and photographer 1870-1948, Kiama Historical Society, c 2021
Samuel Cocks 'The Nibble’ ,The Australasian 27 Oct 1900,p.30
Obituary.Mr. Samuel Cocks’, Kiama Indpendent, 1 May, 1948, p.3
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/100755053?searchTerm=watercolour%20artist%20photographer%20samuel%20cocks

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