William Cubitt Cooke 1866-1951

William Cubitt Cooke was born and lived in London. Apart from being a fine impressionist painter in the plein air, Barbizon tradition, William Cubitt Cooke was the illustrator of a groundbreaking 10-volume Jane Austen edition by J. M. Dent, published in 1892. The Dent edition features thirty illustrations, the largest number produced by one Austen artist to that date.