George Cooke
Painting, Visual Artist
1793 – 1849
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Who was George Cooke?
George Cooke 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. His primary patron was the industrialist Daniel Pratt, who built a gallery in Prattville, Alabama solely to house Cooke's paintings.
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- Born
- 1793
St. Mary's County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Lived in
- Maryland
- Died
- 1849
New Orleans
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on July 23, 2013
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