Lot 112: * Cook (Samuel, 1806-1859). Two men-of-war

* Cook (Samuel, 1806-1859). Two men-of-war attacking a fortified estuary, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, signed lower right, 41.5 x 72cm (16.5 x 28.5ins), framed and glazed. Born in Cornwall, Samuel Cook was apprenticed at the age of nine to a local firm of woollen manufacturers. Once out of his articles he moved to Plymouth and eventually set up as a house painter. In his spare time he made sketches of the coast and quays, and was elected Associate and Member of the New Watercolour Society in 1849 and 1854 repectively. Examples of his work are held by the British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Exeter Museum and Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. (1)