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About Ebenezer Wake Cook
- Ebenezer Wake Cook (28 December 1843 – 1926), generally referred to as E.
- Wake Cook, was a water-colour painter. Cook was born at Maldon, Essex, England and came to Melbourne in 1852.
- At 17 years of age Cook became an assistant to Nicholas Chevalier, who instructed him in painting, wood-engraving and lithography.
- He was one of the original members of the Victorian Academy of Arts in 1870.
- In 1872 Cook studied under Eugene von Guerard at the National Gallery of Victoria.
- In that year he won the medal for the best water-colour exhibited at the exhibition of the New South Wales Academy of Art. He was an associate of Tom Roberts, Rupert Bunny and Bertram Mackennal, and for a time worked for the Adelaide Photographic Company.In 1873 Cook went to London, and from 1875 to 1926 was a constant exhibitor at the Royal Academy.
- In 1904 he published a pamphlet, Anarchism in Art and Chaos in Criticism, which was followed in 1924 by Retrogression in Art and the Suicide of the Royal Academy, an attack on all un-academic painters from Manet onwards.
- Cook for a time was president of the Langham Sketch Club, and an original member and honorary secretary of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists.
- Cook died early in 1926.
- His work was popular with some collectors and dealers, but it was often regarded as pretty when it was meant to be beautiful.
- Cook is represented in the national galleries at Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.
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