Cooke verbleef zo vaak in Nederland dat hij in zijn thuisland een bijnaam kreeg. Lees hierover in het volgende artikel:"The Tide Goes Out for "Dutch Cooke"
Edward William Cooke painted his first Dutch shore scene in 1837 and over the next 40 years visited the coastal fishing communities many times, becoming so closely identified with this sort of scene that he came to be known as "Dutch Cooke" or Van Kook, from the name that he was wont to paint on the sterns of the bomschuit or pinks as he called them, a picturesque type of flat-bottomed vessel that he featured in many of his works.
For all the visits over the years, he painted at Camperdown only once, and the 1879 canvas illustrated here, On the Dutch Coast at Camperdown, A Squally Day—Tide Out, was also his last, for Cooke died in January of the following year. A dramatic farewell, full of attention to detail and obvious familiarity with his subject that characterizes his work, the picture had been with the same family since the 19th century, and as an untouched, fresh-to-the-market picture, it sold for $187,200 to a London dealer in a Phillips maritime sale of January 27.
Among the marine artefacts was a ship's figurehead that had been too long exposed to the elements, but one which had significant American associations and found a keen buyer at a ten times estimate $5520."
