Ida Cooke (1909-1982) was a well-known painter, mainly of figure subjects, landscapes and still lifes. She was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, and came to the UK in the 1930s where she studied at the Slade School in London, winning a prize for life painting in 1933 and gaining the Orpen Bursary the following year. Cooke later attended Oskar Kokoschka’s School of Art in Salzburg in Austria. She exhibited widely in Britain and abroad, including extensively with the New English Art Club from 1941 to 1980, at the Royal Academy, and at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Women’s International Art Club, the United Society of Artists, and with the John Whibley Gallery and Qantas Gallery. Ida Cooke also had solo shows with the Woodstock Gallery in 1966, Clarges Gallery in 1973 and Centaur Gallery in Windsor in 1980. She lived at Iver in Buckinghamshire. Her work is held in collections internationally.