418 JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION, 
ranean ; but it was too late—consumption had set in, and he was 
doomed. 
He died on the 7th June, 1859, at the age of fifty-three, and he 
was buried at the Plymouth Cemetery, his funeral being very largely 
attended. 
The same day that took him from us deprived us also of that 
patriarch of water colour art, ‘‘Old David Cox.” For this loss we 
were, however, prepared; for the great master’s sun had long 
reached its zenith, and all knew that the hour of inevitable eclipse 
was nigh ; but Samuel Cook went down at noonday, in the full- 
ness of power and promise, each succeeding season being marked 
by increasing excellence. Had he been spared to us but a few 
years longer, it is very certain that he would have had no superior, 
and but few equals, in his own especial field of art. 
To the student he left a sterling lesson of humility, persever- 
ance, and that patient study without which even genius such as 
his was can never hope to accomplish great results. _Emphatically 
a self-made man, he raised himself by his virtue, no less than by 
his talents, to a position of universal respect and esteem, and he 
left a name which will be long and affectionately remembered as 
that of a great artist and a good man. 
LIST OF SOME OF THE BEST-KNOWN WORKS OF THE 
LATE SAMUEL COOK, ARTIST. 
PICTURES IN OIL. POSSESSOR. 
Sir Francis Drake bringing in the Tm 
Mark Grigg, Esq.,Tamert 
Leat (on Panel) ark Grigg, Esq.,Tamerton. 
The Spanish Armada (on Panel} . 3 Ditto. 
DRAWINGS IN WATER COLOUR. 
The Dolwyddelan Valley, North Wales. . Ditto. 
Storm, Countesbury Crag, sida . : Ditto. 
Bossiney Bay, Cornwall . : : Ditto. 
Tintagel, Cornwall ; : d ‘ Ditto. 
Kynance Cove, Cornwall ‘ 5 : Ditto. 
Trebarwith, Cornwall . : . ; Ditto. 
Boscastle, Cornwall ; : : ° Ditto. 
A Storm at Tintagel : . . Mrs. Davies, Circus, Bath. 
Sea Coast near the Lizard : ; : Ditto. 
Ditto ditto : ‘ ; Ditto. 
Lord Selborne, Portland 
Place, London. 
Polperro, Cornwall : : : : Ditto. 
Entrance to Fowey Harbour . i : Ditto. 
View of Plymouth 
