Thomas Matthews Rooke

Thomas Matthews Rooke (1842, London – 1942, London) was a British watercolourist. He worked as a designer, as an assistant to other artists, and was commissioned by John Ruskin to make architectural drawings.[1]

A Vanished Corner of Old Chiswick

The Lychgate

Life

Ruskin hired Rooke from Morris & Co. in 1879, and Rooke was still paid by him eight years later.[2] 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.[3][4]

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 Preservation of Memorials of Ancient Buildings; and exhibited at the Royal Academy and Grosvenor Gallery.[5]

Family

Rooke married Leonora Jane Jones; the wood-engraver Noel Rooke was their son.[6]

Notes

H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 294. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.
Rachel Dickinson (1 January 2009). John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. MHRA. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-905981-90-8.
Scott Wilcox; Christopher Newall (January 1992). Victorian Landscape Watercolors. Hudson Hills. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-55595-071-2.
Mark Frost (1 August 2014). The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History. Anthem Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-78308-283-4. Mentioned are Angelo Alessandri, John Wharlton Bunney, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Fairfax Murray, and Henry Roderick Newman.
Timothy Hilton (2002). John Ruskin. Yale University Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-300-09099-4.
Horne, Alan. "Rooke, Noel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69374. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

External links

More works by Rooke @ ArtNet
Biographical notes @ Bonhams
19 paintings by or after Thomas Matthews Rooke at the Art UK site
An appreciation of Rooke @ The Kissed Mouth (blog)

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[1] H. L. Mallalieu (1986). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists up to 1920. Antique Collectors' Club. p. 294. ISBN 1-85149-025-6.

[2] Rachel Dickinson (1 January 2009). John Ruskin's Correspondence with Joan Severn: Sense and Nonsense Letters. MHRA. p. 291. ISBN 978-1-905981-90-8.

[3] Scott Wilcox; Christopher Newall (January 1992). Victorian Landscape Watercolors. Hudson Hills. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-55595-071-2.

[Frost2014-4] Mark Frost (1 August 2014). The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History. Anthem Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-78308-283-4. Mentioned are Angelo Alessandri, John Wharlton Bunney, Henry Stacy Marks, Charles Fairfax Murray, and Henry Roderick Newman.

[5] Timothy Hilton (2002). John Ruskin. Yale University Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-300-09099-4.

[6] Horne, Alan. "Rooke, Noel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69374. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)