File:Captain John Cooke - National Maritime Museum BHC2629.jpg

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Lemuel Francis Abbott: Captain John Cooke  wikidata:Q50910041 reasonator:Q50910041
Artist
Lemuel Francis Abbott  (1760–1802)  wikidata:Q725410
 
Lemuel Francis Abbott
Description British portrait painter
Date of birth/death 1760 Edit this at Wikidata 15 December 1802
Location of birth/death Leicestershire London
Work location
London Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q725410
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Title
Captain John Cooke (1762–1805)
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
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'.
Depicted people John Cooke Edit this at Wikidata
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
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 76.2 cm (30 in); width: 63.5 cm (25 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,76.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,63.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1199924
Current location
Royal Museums Greenwich
Accession number
BHC2629
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:

The gold braid and the epaulettes and buttons on Cooke's full-dress uniform (which he could have worn any time after 1795) are quite unlike the sensitive touch of Abbott himself, which is seen only in the head and in the background. The 'brassiness and rather flashy boldness' of the epaulettes are entirely typical of Marshall's execution.

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Source/Photographer https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-14103
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Portrait of John Cooke in uniform, painted circa 1797–1803 by Lemuel Francis Abbott.

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