Edward John Cobbett

Edward John Cobbett (1815–1899) was an English watercolour and oil painter, a pupil of Joseph William Allen.[1] He worked in London and Addlestone, Surrey.[2] He exhibited at the British Institution, the Royal Academy from 1833 to 1880, and the Society of British Artists, particularly on landscape and flower subjects.[1][3] He was known for idyllic rustic scenes and depictions of children.[4]

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

Notes
  1. H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 81. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. "maasgallery.co.uk, Category: British Pictures 2014 - Image: 37. Edward John Cobbett RBA 1815-1899". Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. "Marriages". London Standard. 26 October 1885. Retrieved 13 April 2015 – via British Newspaper Archive.
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