File:Captain John Cooke - National Maritime Museum BHC2629.jpg
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Lemuel Francis Abbott: Captain John Cooke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q725410 |
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Title |
Captain John Cooke (1762–1805) |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: From the museum's website A half-length portrait of Captain John Cooke wearing a captain's full-dress uniform (over three years), 1795-1812; sea and sky form the background. He was captain of the 'Nymphe' when, together with the 'San Fiorenzo', they captured the French frigates, 'Résistance' and 'Constance' off Brest in March 1797. He was killed at Trafalgar when commanding the 'Bellerophon', being one of two captains to die there: the other was George Duff of the 'Mars'. The 'Bellerophon' was engaged in close action with the French 'L'Aigle'. At 11 minutes past one, while reloading his pistols for the third time, Cooke was shot in the chest and fell to the deck. A 14-year-old midshipman, George Pearson, rushed forward to lend assistance but he was felled by a splinter. Mortally wounded, Cooke's last words to his quartermaster were 'Let me lay one minute'. |
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Depicted people | John Cooke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
between circa 1797 and circa 1803 date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1803-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 76.2 cm (30 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in) dimensions QS:P2048,76.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,63.5U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q1199924 |
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Current location | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
BHC2629 |
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Object history | Presented to Greenwich Hospital in 1848 by Elizabeth Cooke, née Austen, the widow of Christopher Cooke, Cooke's elder brother. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
The art critic, Albert Charles Sewter, writing in the May 1955 edition of the The Connoisseur magazine, stated that he believed that the picture was finished by another hand, and that this hand belonged possibly to Benjamin Marshall:
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References |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-14103 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh |
File change date and time | 14:11, 22 March 2005 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 1,045 px |
Image height | 1,280 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 14:11, 22 March 2005 |
Date metadata was last modified | 14:11, 22 March 2005 |
IIM version | 2 |