Isleworth Riverside Looking towards Twickenham Local Bridge 1890
George Edward Cook (1844–1914)
Boston Manor House
George Edward Cook [also known as G. E. Cook] was born in 1844. Little is known about his early life. By 1869 he was working as a stained glass designer and trading as G. E. Cook & Co. with a studio at 98 Gower Street, London which he shared with the furniture designer Bruce J. Talbert (1838-1881) in 1873-74, and with the architect John McKean Brydon (1840-1901) from 1876. Cook designed windows for St Peter in Tyringham in 1870s; St John Evangelist in Lacey Green, Buckinghamshire in 1872; All Saints Church, Eastchurch, Isle of Sheppey in 1872; and the Church of St Illtyd, St Gwynno and St Dyfodwg in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales in 1872. During the 1870s Cook also designed windows for St. Helen's Church in Pinxton, Derbyshire; St.
As well as his work as a stained glass designer, Cook was a painter and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London from 1874 to 1898. He also exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, Royal Society of British Artists, Ridley Art Club and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Manchester City Art Gallery; and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.
In 1880 Cook moved from Gower Street to 65 George Street, Portman Square, London. By 1885 he had moved to 12 Dorset Street, Gloucester Place, London. He died in 1914. His death was recorded in Wandsworth, London.
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
Text source: Art History Research net (AHR net)
