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Cook also painted scenery for another play of Wightwick’s 
called “ Henry II.” 
Cook subsequently painted a stock landscape scene for Mr. New- 
combe, which did service for many years, but has long since been 
painted out; and he also painted, as I have already mentioned, the 
scenery for the spectacle of ‘ Aladdin” for the Plymouth Theatre 
at an earlier date. 
The only other scenery painted by Cook, besides what I have 
referred to at the theatre in Vauxhall Street, were two scenes for 
private theatricals at my own house—one representing a French 
landscape, with cobblers’ stall, for a piece called “‘The Wonderful 
Woman,” in which that gifted lady, the late Lady Trelawny, 
played the chief part; and the other scene an interior of a 
small lodging-house for the well-known farce of “ Box and Cox.” 
I was living at this time (in the year 1848) at a small house in 
Alfred Street, and well remember the surprise of my audience at 
finding themselves looking out on an extensive and cheerful 
landscape, making what was really a small back parlour appear of 
enormous dimensions. This was about the first occasion of the 
acquaintance, which ripened into a sincere friendship, between 
Lady Trelawny and Cook, and which lasted till his death. Lady 
Trelawny entertained the highest respect for his amiable qualities 
and his artistic ability, whilst his regard for her was only equalled 
by those others of us who knew her well. When she came to 
reside at Plymouth with my old schoolfellow, her husband, Sir 
John Trelawny, she soon found out George Wightwick, or he her. 
He said of her, that he had never met with any one who 
comprised so much sense and sensibility. She went to all his 
Shaksperian readings, and soon identified herself with all that was 
artistic, whether dramatic or pictorial. She fraternized with the 
artist and amateurs as if she had been one of themselves, and she 
was beloved by all. Wightwick was one of the first ; but Colonel 
Smith, Mr. Johns, and many others, soon recognized her rare gifts 
of intellect and character. It was impossible for any of us to be 
in her society without falling under the spell of a strangely fasci- 
nating and sympathetic personality, and in these characteristics 
she must have resembled the late Mrs. Cross, known as George 
Elliot. 
She was a very frequent visitor to Cook when at work in his 
studio, where she was always welcomed; and he presented her 
