George Cooke (painter)

George Cooke
Born
George Esten Cooke

1793
St. Mary's County, Maryland, U.S.
Died1849 (aged 55–56)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, U.S.
Known forPrimarily portrait painting
Patron(s)Daniel Pratt

George Esten Cooke (1793–1849) was an itinerant United States painter who specialized in portrait and landscape paintings and was one of the South's best known painters of the mid nineteenth century.[1] His primary patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville, Alabama, solely to house Cooke's paintings.[1]

  1. ^ a b "George Cooke (1793-1849)". Georgia Humanities Council. Retrieved February 6, 2008.