Ebenezer Wake Cook
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Ebenezer Wake Cook (28 December 1843 – 8 May 1926), generally referred to as E. Wake Cook, was a watercolour painter, one of the first in Australia, before returning to England at the age of 30.
During 1867 and 1868 Chevalier was commissioned to produce a number of images of New Zealand and Tasmania and Victoria, Australia, by Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. A watercolour of Isle of the Dead in Tasmania was painted by Cook in about 1868.
He was an associate of Tom Roberts, Rupert Bunny and Bertram Mackennal, and for a time worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company.
Sources
- Serle, Percival (1949). . Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
External links
- (c. 1868) painted by Ebenezer Wake Cook