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Samantha Cook
Biography
Samantha Cook is a Nyikina woman from the north-west Kimberley region of Western Australia who is based between Los Angeles and Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Samantha Cook, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
Captain James Cook FRS, 1784
Thomas Cook
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gina and Ted Gregg 2010
Samantha Nimunburr Wyborn
Biography
Samantha Nimunburr Wyborn is a Bardi and Yawuru woman, artist and jeweller.
1 portrait in the collection
Samantha Harris, 2010
by Hamish Ta-mé
Image
The Chameleon IV, 2015
by Samantha McAdam-Cooper
Image
Samantha Nimunburr Wyborn, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
The press conference, 2010
by Jeremy Thompson
Image
Thomas Cook
Biography
Thomas Cook produced portraits for the Gentleman's Magazine and frontispieces for book publishers, as well as a number of single plates in different genres for Boydell.
1 portrait in the collection
Yassmin Abdel-Magied, 2017
by Adrian Cook
Image
Snap decisions
Magazine article by Robert Cook, 2018
NPPP judge Robert Cook provides irreverent insight into this year’s fare, and having to be a bit judgemental.
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
Billy Cook and Pride of Egypt, 1954
Ern McQuillan OAM
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004
Kylie and Nell
Adrian Cook
Image
Portrait of Captain James Cook RN, 1782
John Webber
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased by the Commonwealth Government with the generous assistance of Robert Oatley AO and John Schaeffer AO 2000
Captain Cook
'The photojournalists of their time'
Portrait story
An exploration of the role of artists such as John Webber who, whilst a member of Cook’s crew over many voyages, created paintings and drawings of the situations and people the explorers encountered.