Edward John Cobbett

Edward John Cobbett
R.B.A.
Born1815
Marylebone, London, England
Died11 October 1899, age 84
Winchmore Hill, North London
NationalityBritish
Known forLandscape painting, flower painting, rustic scenes, child portraiture

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

Background

Grave of Edward John Cobbett in Highgate Cemetery

Cobbett was born in Marylebone, London, in 1815.[1][2][nb 1] He was a member of the Savage Club in his younger days, "when Bohemianism and exclusiveness were the purport of all its rules".[3] He had a "considerable circle of artistic friends ... he was to the last generation of artistic Bohemians well known".[4] 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),[nb 2] Phoebe Maria Cobbett (born 1849),[nb 3] Edith Haynes Cobbett (born 1856),[nb 4] and Gertrude Winifred Cobbett (born 1862).[nb 5][5] He described himself as an "artist, figure and landscape".[nb 6]

His daughter Gertrude Winifred married Gerald Aubrey Goodman in 1885.[5]

Cobbet moved to Surrey,[2] retired in 1885, and died aged 84 at Avondale, Winchmore Hill, North London on 11 October 1899.[2][6][7] 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.[3] However when he was twenty years old he became a painter.[3]

Cobbet was a pupil of Joseph William Allen.[2][1] "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".[3] He worked in London and Addlestone, Surrey.[8]

Works

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

  • Peeling Apples by Edward John Cobbett
    Peeling Apples by Edward John Cobbett
  • The Cottage by Edward John Cobbett
    The Cottage by Edward John Cobbett

Exhibitions

Cobbett exhibited at the British Institution,[1] the Royal Academy from 1833 to 1880 (including "over thirty consecutive years"),[3] the Suffolk Street Gallery and the Society of British Artists,[2] particularly on landscape and flower subjects.[1][10]

Collections

Notes

  1. ^ England Census 1871, RG10/220, page 43, schedule 67, St Pancras, London
  2. ^ Births Dec 1841 Cobbett Theodosia Mary Ann St Pancras I 300
  3. ^ Births Mar 1849 Cobbett Phoebe Maria Kensington III 375
  4. ^ Births Mar 1856 Cobbett Edith Haynes St. Pancras 1b 148
  5. ^ Births Dec 1862 Cobbett Gertrude Winifred Pancras 1b 96
  6. ^ England Census 1881, RG11/197 page 26, St Pancras

References

  1. ^ a b c d H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 81. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Cobbett, Edward John". oxfordartonline.com. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Probably only a few of the present generation will remember". Pateley Bridge & Nidderdale Herald. British Newspaper Archive. 21 October 1899. p. 2 col.2. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  4. ^ "A considerable circle". Northwich Guardian. British Newspaper Archive. 18 October 1899. p. 7 col.3. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Marriages". London Standard. 26 October 1885. Retrieved 13 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
  6. ^ "Winchmore Hill". Barnet Press. British Newspaper Archive. 28 October 1899. p. 3 col.2. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Deaths". Globe. British Newspaper Archive. 14 October 1899. p. 7 col.5. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  8. ^ Christopher Wright; Catherine May Gordon; Mary Peskett Smith (2006). 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. Yale University Press. p. 248. ISBN 0-300-11730-2.
  9. ^ "maasgallery.co.uk, Category: British Pictures 2014 - Image: 37. Edward John Cobbett RBA 1815-1899". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  10. ^ Ray Desmond (25 February 1994). Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. CRC Press. p. 155. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8.

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