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Anthony R Cooke: Anthony Richard Cooke (1933-2006) was a painter of coastal scenes, landscapes and portraits usually in oils.  Born in London he studied at the College of Design in Worthing and at the Royal Academy Schools, his teachers including Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, Peter Greenham, Ruskin Spear and Carel Weight.  He exhibited at the RA regularly from 1957 and had solo shows at the Trafford Gallery in London W1, and also in Johannesburg, etc.  His work is represented in a number of public collections including the Government Art Collection, and the art galleries of Batley, Preston, Worthing, Leicester, and Nottingham.  He lived in Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex for many years, in the early days on a houseboat called ‘Tringa’, and following his death Worthing Museum and Art Gallery are holding a major retrospective show from September 2010-January 2011 of more than eighty of Anthony Cooke’s paintings and watercolours.