Thomas Matthews Rooke
Ruskin hired Rooke from Morris & Co. In 1879, and was still paying him eight years later. In 1884 he was painting Italian architecture.
Thomas Matthews Rooke
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Ruskin hired Rooke from Morris & Co. In 1879, and was still paying him eight years later. In 1884 he was painting Italian architecture.
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Ruskin's project aimed to record threatened landscapes and buildings, and for it he also employed Frank Randal (1852–1917), and half a dozen others. In parallel Rooke was a studio assistant to Edward Burne-Jones, during the period 1868 to 1898. He also did work for Sydney Cockerell and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; and exhibited at the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.
Ruskin hired Rooke from Morris & Co. in 1879, and was still paying him eight years later. In 1884 he was painting Italian architecture. Ruskin's project aimed to record threatened landscapes and buildings, and for it he also employed Frank Randal (1852–1917), and half a dozen others. In parallel Rooke was a studio assistant to Edward Burne-Jones, during the period 1868 to 1898. He also did work for Sydney Cockerell and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings; and exhibited at the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery. He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.
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Rooke married Leonora Jane Jones; the wood-engraver Noel Rooke was their son.
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Huon L. Mallalieu. The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. 294. 1986. 1-85149-025-6.
- 2.Rachel Dickinson. John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. MHRA. 291. 2009. 978-1-905981-90-8.
- 3.Hudson Hills. Victorian Landscape Watercolors. 39. January 1992. 978-1-55595-071-2.
- 4.Mark Frost. The Lost Companions and John Ruskin's Guild of St George: A Revisionary History. Anthem Press. 193. 2014. 978-1-78308-283-4.
- 5.Timothy Hilton. John Ruskin. Yale University Press. 805. 2002. 978-0-300-09099-4.
- 6.Dollman, John Charles. Bedford Park. Harrison and Sons. 1882. 193146366.
- 7.Horne, Alan. Rooke, Noel.
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