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John Webber
Portrait of Captain James Cook RN, 1782
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased by the Commonwealth Government with the generous assistance of Robert Oatley AO and John Schaeffer AO 2000
Francesco Bartolozzi after John Webber
Captain James Cook, engraving after John Webber, 1784
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Wedgwood and Bentley
Jasperware medallion of Captain James Cook, 1779
Portrait, white on blue Jasper Ware in oval shaped wood and gilt frame
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Thomas Cook
Captain James Cook FRS, 1784
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Lewis Pingo
The Royal Society medal in commemoration of Captain James Cook, 1784
Portrait, silver medal
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
William Holl, Fisher, Son & Co London after Nathaniel Dance
Captain James Cook, 1837
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
William Holl, Peter Jackson, London & Paris after Nathaniel Dance
Captain James Cook from the original in the Naval Gallery, Greenwich Hospital, c. 1837
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Francis Jukes after John Cleveley
View of Owhyhee in the Sandwich Islands in the south Seas (The Death of Cook), 1787-1788
Portrait, aquatint, hand coloured on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Liangis family 2012
Francesco Bartolozzi, William Byrne after John Webber
The Death of Captain Cook, 1784
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007
Robert Bénard
Le Cap.ne Jacques Cook, Membre de la Société Royale des Londres, c. 1778
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
an unknown artist after Antoine Maurin
Cook, n.d.
Portrait, engraving, hand coloured on paper
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
G E. Madeley after John Lhotsky
Captain Cook's Tablet at Cape Solander, Botany Bay, New South Wales, 1839
Portrait, lithograph on paper
Purchased 2018
Penny Tweedie
Samantha Cook, c. 2000
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
Ern McQuillan OAM
Billy Cook and Pride of Egypt, 1954
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004
Captain James Cook RN
Biography
James Cook (1728-1779), maritime explorer, surveyed and claimed the east coast of Australia on the first of his three great voyages of discovery in the Pacific.
12 portraits in the collection
Francesco Bartolozzi after John Webber
Captain James King, engraving after Webber, 1784
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Robert Oatley AO 2007