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Cook Herbert Moxon

Herbert Moxon Cook (1844-1928) was born in Manchester, England, and

brought up in Hackney, London, before moving to Prestatyn in North Wales,

where he painted mainly coastal scenes in both oils and watercolour. In 1881 he

was a landscape painter residing at a hotel in Lanark, Scotland and throughout

the eighties and nineties he travelled throughout Scotland and Ireland, with a

particular fascination for the Scottish west coast, especially the Isle of Arran. At

the census of 1891 he was a guest at the Corrie Hotel, and he became well known

in the village while painting numerous local landscapes en plein air, as well as an

interesting interior of Corrie Church. He also painted in various European

locations, including Switzerland and Italy. He returned to England when he

married in 1899 and continued to paint and exhibit – at the Royal Academy, the

Glasgow Institute, the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Society of Artists in

Birmingham, Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery, and the Royal Society of British

Artists, among others. He died, a widower, in Manchester in 1928.

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