English: From the museum's website
A half-length portrait of Captain John Cooke wearing a captain's full-dress uniform (over three years), 1795-1812; sea and sky form the background. He was captain of the 'Nymphe' when, together with the 'San Fiorenzo', they captured the French frigates, 'Résistance' and 'Constance' off Brest in March 1797. He was killed at Trafalgar when commanding the 'Bellerophon', being one of two captains to die there: the other was George Duff of the 'Mars'. The 'Bellerophon' was engaged in close action with the French 'L'Aigle'. At 11 minutes past one, while reloading his pistols for the third time, Cooke was shot in the chest and fell to the deck. A 14-year-old midshipman, George Pearson, rushed forward to lend assistance but he was felled by a splinter. Mortally wounded, Cooke's last words to his quartermaster were 'Let me lay one minute'.
Presented to Greenwich Hospital in 1848 by Elizabeth Cooke, née Austen, the widow of Christopher Cooke, Cooke's elder brother.
Noter
The art critic, Albert Charles Sewter, writing in the May 1955 edition of the The Connoisseur magazine, stated that he believed that the picture was finished by another hand, and that this hand belonged possibly to Benjamin Marshall:
The gold braid and the epaulettes and buttons on Cooke's full-dress uniform (which he could have worn any time after 1795) are quite unlike the sensitive touch of Abbott himself, which is seen only in the head and in the background. The 'brassiness and rather flashy boldness' of the epaulettes are entirely typical of Marshall's execution.
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Dette værk er offentlig ejendom i Amerikas Forenede Stater (USA) fordi det blev udgivet (eller registreret hos U.S. Copyright Office) før 1 januar 1929.
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Portrait of John Cooke in uniform, painted circa 1797–1803 by Lemuel Francis Abbott.
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