Edward John Cobbett Explained

Edward John Cobbett
Honorific Suffix:R.B.A.
Birth Date:1815
Birth Place:Marylebone, London, England
Death Date:11 October 1899, age 84
Death Place:Winchmore Hill, North London
Nationality:British
Known For:Landscape painting, flower painting, rustic scenes, child portraiture

Edward John Cobbett (1815–1899) was an English watercolour and oil painter.

Background

Cobbett was born in Marylebone, London, in 1815.[1] He was a member of the Savage Club in his younger days, "when Bohemianism and exclusiveness were the purport of all its rules". He had a "considerable circle of artistic friends ... he was to the last generation of artistic Bohemians well known".[2] In 1971 and 1881 he was living at 20 Oakley Square, St Pancras, London, with his wife Mary Anne née Haynes and four daughters including Theodosia Mary Ann Cobbett (born 1841), Phoebe Maria Cobbett (born 1849), Edith Haynes Cobbett (born 1856), and Gertrude Winifred Cobbett (born 1862). He described himself as an "artist, figure and landscape".

His daughter Gertrude Winifred married Gerald Aubrey Goodman in 1885.[3]

Cobbet moved to Surrey,[1] retired in 1885, and died aged 84 at Avondale, Winchmore Hill, North London on 11 October 1899.[1] [4] [5] He is buried in a family grave on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

Training and career

Cobbett was originally a wood carver, and at the time of his death in 1899, some of his carving could still be seen in the choir of York Minster.[6] However when he was twenty years old he became a painter.[6]

Cobbet was a pupil of Joseph William Allen.[1] [7] "He quickly made a name for himself as one of the chief exponents of the rustic school of painting which had a great vogue from about the middle of the century to the early 'eighties".[6] He worked in London and Addlestone, Surrey.[8]

Works

Cobbett was known for idyllic rustic scenes and depictions of children.[9]

Exhibitions

Cobbett exhibited at the British Institution,[7] the Royal Academy from 1833 to 1880 (including "over thirty consecutive years"),[6] the Suffolk Street Gallery and the Society of British Artists,[1] particularly on landscape and flower subjects.[7] [10]

Collections

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cobbett, Edward John . oxfordartonline.com . Benezit Dictionary of Artists . 29 November 2021 . 31 October 2011.
  2. News: A considerable circle . 29 November 2021 . Northwich Guardian . British Newspaper Archive . subscription . 18 October 1899 . 7 col.3.
  3. News: Marriages. 26 October 1885. London Standard. British Newspaper Archive. 13 April 2015.
  4. News: Winchmore Hill . 29 November 2021 . Barnet Press . British Newspaper Archive . subscription . 28 October 1899 . 3 col.2.
  5. News: Deaths . 29 November 2021 . Globe . British Newspaper Archive . subscription . 14 October 1899 . 7 col.5.
  6. News: Probably only a few of the present generation will remember . 29 November 2021 . Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald . British Newspaper Archive . subscription . 21 October 1899 . 2 col.2.
  7. Book: H. L. Mallalieu . The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. 1986. Antique Collectors' Club. 1-85149-025-6. 81.
  8. Book: Christopher Wright. Catherine May Gordon. Mary Peskett Smith. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. 2006. Yale University Press. 0-300-11730-2. 248.
  9. Web site: maasgallery.co.uk, Category: British Pictures 2014 - Image: 37. Edward John Cobbett RBA 1815-1899. 13 April 2015.
  10. Book: Ray Desmond. Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. 25 February 1994. CRC Press. 978-0-85066-843-8. 155.