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Arthur Claude Cooke
(1867 - 1951)
Arthur Claude Cooke was born in Luton in 1867. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools and from 1892 was exhibiting at the Royal Academy.
Cooke was a primarily a figurative painter with occasional forays into the genre of historical subjects and landscapes, he frequently worked on a monumental scale, as with his painting The Dancing Lesson, exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1904. Early in his career, Cooke lived in Belsize Park, London, home to a colony of artists, working in Steele’s Studios on Haverstock Hill, latterly moving to Sarre Road, West Hampstead, and in 1913 settling in Radlett Hertfordshire.
Cooke exhibited widely, in addition to the Royal Academy he exhibited at The Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, The Royal Institute of Painters in Oil and the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1895 he had been awarded silver and bronze medals at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1895. His works can be seen in public collections in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire.
Cooke was a primarily a figurative painter with occasional forays into the genre of historical subjects and landscapes, he frequently worked on a monumental scale, as with his painting The Dancing Lesson, exhibited at The Royal Academy in 1904. Early in his career, Cooke lived in Belsize Park, London, home to a colony of artists, working in Steele’s Studios on Haverstock Hill, latterly moving to Sarre Road, West Hampstead, and in 1913 settling in Radlett Hertfordshire.
Cooke exhibited widely, in addition to the Royal Academy he exhibited at The Walker Art Gallery Liverpool, The Royal Institute of Painters in Oil and the Royal Society of British Artists. In 1895 he had been awarded silver and bronze medals at the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1895. His works can be seen in public collections in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire.
