The Liberator, Irishman with his Blackthorn Shillelagh
Oil on Panel
14.50 x 11.74 Inches sight – 22 x 18 inches framed
Inscribed on verso ‘O’Connel’
Signed ll. Cook C. 1860
Provenance: Private Collection, UK
The Liberator, Irishman with his Blackthorn Shillelagh
Artist: Charles Henry Cook
Biography of Charles Henry Cook ( British, 1830 - 1906 )
Charles Henry Cook was born at Bandon about 1830. He painted in Cork, portraits, scenes of Irish life and landscapes. In 1864 Cook exhibited two pictures in the Royal Hibernian Academy, ‘The Irish Match-maker’, and ‘Little Peggy’. In noticing his work, ‘The Freeman’s Journal’ expressed the opinion that he had great power and gave promise of the future. Cook again exhibited at the RHA in 1865. After practicing for some years in Cork, where he lived with his widowed mother in Sunday’s Well Avenue, he went to England. In 1870 he was in Bath and sent a picture to the Royal Hibernian Academy. Of his subsequent career no details are forthcoming. Cook died at Scarborough about 1906.