DescriptionGeorge Frederick Cooke - Gilbert Stuart.jpg
English: Paintings: G0135
Title
George Frederick Cooke
Technique
Oil on panel
Subject
Cooke, George Frederick
Artist
Stuart, Gilbert
Dimensions
Height: 68.6cm
Width: 55.9cm
Provenance
Price; Charles Mathews
Other number
Mathews 49
RW 372 (by J. Stewart)
CKA 372
Exhibition history
1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (49)
Literature
William Dunlap, "Memoirs of Cooke" (1813), II, 185-86; Laurence Park, "Gilbert Stuart" (1926), I, 236-37
A mature Cooke wears a dark blue velvet jacket with traces of powder on the shoulders.
This portrait was painted in Boston for Price, the New York theatre manager, and finished on 6 January 1811. Patmore calls it "The last portrait for which he ever sat, painted in America."
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