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Description: | Cecilia Cooke was probably a talented amateur artist from a wealthy local family. She may have been the sister of Louisa Cooke of Doncaster, who was the first wife of Sir Charles Monck of Belsay Hall. They married in 1804, which may be around the date that Cecilia Cooke visited Durham. Young ladies from upper-class families were often taught watercolour painting as an attractive skill. This view of the woody banks and the ancient bridge and cathedral at Durham is in the Picturesque style popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | art movement artists watercolours other North East art North East artists | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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