Brief biography
George Cockram was born at Birkenhead in Cheshire in 1861, and studied at the Liverpool School of Art from 1876-1884, and later in Paris. A landscape painter who exhibited widely, he had won a name for himself by the later 1880s: The Artist described him in May 1887, when his work was shown at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, as having "technical ability" (151). Then again, in that same season, the journal picked him out as a "notable exhibitor" at the Royal Academy, on this occasion reporting that his Cookham Street was "a sound piece of water-colour" (166). In 1892, Cockram's painting, Solitude, was exhibited at the Royal Academy and bought for the Tate as a Chantrey Purchase (Descriptive and Historical Catalogue 56). Charles Hemming says that Cockram lived in Conwy, N. Wales, from 1890 (121); according to the Williamson Art Gallery in Birkenhead, where an exhibition of his work is being held in 2022, he made his permanent home not far from Conwy, in Anglesey. — JB
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Bibliography
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"George Cockram." Williamson Art Gallery and Museum. Web. 10 May 2022.
Hemming, Charles. British Painters of the Coast and Sea: A History and Gazetteer. London: Gollancz, 1988. Internet Archive. Contributed by the Arcadia Fund. Web. 10 May 2022.
"Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours." The Artist. Vol. 8. 1887: 150-51. Google Books. Free Ebook. Web. 10 May 2022.
"The Water-Colours at the Royal Academy." The Artist. Vol. 8. 1887: 166-67. Google Books. Free Ebook. Web. 10 May 2022.
Created 10 May 2022