# Nelson Cook

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{{Short description|American portraitist and poet}}
[[File:Francis Bond Head.jpg|thumb|right|Engraving of [Francis Bond Head](/source/Francis_Bond_Head) from a portrait by Nelson Cook, 1837]]
'''Nelson Cook''' (1808–1892) was an American [portrait](/source/portrait)ist and "[occasional poet](/source/Occasional_poetry)".<ref name=Cook>{{cite web|title=NELSON COOK: American Portraitist (1808-1892)|url=http://www.nelsoncook.com/|accessdate=July 8, 2013}}</ref>

==Biography==
Cook was born in [Malta, New York](/source/Malta%2C_New_York) in 1808, one of nine children of furniture maker Joseph Cook and Mary Ann Tolman, originally from [Wallingford, Connecticut](/source/Wallingford%2C_Connecticut).<ref name=Cook />  He moved to Toronto Canada around 1830, where he worked as an agent for his brother [Ransom](/source/Ransom_Cook) and took up painting.  He returned to New York in 1840 and settled in [Saratoga Springs](/source/Saratoga_Springs%2C_New_York).<ref name=NPG>{{cite web|title=John Clarke|url=http://npgportraits.si.edu/eMuseumNPG/code/emuseum.asp?rawsearch=ObjectID/,/is/,/112068/,/false/,/false&newprofile=CAP&newstyle=single|work=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=July 8, 2013}}</ref>

Cook was a self-taught artist and over 170 of his portraits have been found, including many prominent people from Canada, Saratoga Springs, Rochester, Buffalo, Rome, Utica and elsewhere.  His work is in museums and private collections mostly in the Northeastern US and Ontario, Canada.

Nelson Cook was married to Esther Freeman and had one daughter, Marion, born in Canada.

He died in Saratoga Springs in 1892 and is believed to be buried in [Greenridge Cemetery](/source/Greenridge_Cemetery).<ref name=Cook />

==See also==
*[Ransom Cook](/source/Ransom_Cook)

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.nelsoncook.com/ Nelson Cook: American Portraitist (1808-1892)]
* [http://www.avictorian.com/Cook_Nelson.html Victorian Artists: Nelson Cook]
*[http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/34677/rec/42 American paintings & historical prints from the Middendorf collection], an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Cook (no. 25)

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Category:American male poets
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Category:American portrait painters
Category:People from Malta, New York
Category:Burials at Greenridge Cemetery
Category:1808 births
Category:1892 deaths
Category:Occasional poets
Category:19th-century American male writers

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