Client Comments

"...I personally enjoyed working with you and the final painting provided an accurate likeness... the assignment was conducted in the most professional manner"

Allan R. Taylor
President and C.E.O.
Royal Bank of Canada

"...I am well pleased with the results and my firm has received many comments of a complimentary nature to the effect that Mr. Cook has rendered a true portrayal of his subject. I am of the opinion that Mr. Cook is a first rate portrait artist "

Jonn Broderick
Senior partner at Law
Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada

"Without hesitation I would recommend Richard Cook to anyone who desires a truly professional and beautiful portrait"

Rt. Rev. Louis B. King
Bishop Emeritus
General Church of the New Jerusalem
Bryn Athyn, Pennsilvania

"I enjoyed the process and Richard was fun to get to know. We are so happy with the painting, he really captured Ellie, Zak and Matt. It was everything I had hoped for"

Jenny Clayton
Hingham, Massachusetts

There have been many newspaper articles about Richard's portrait work and his book Angel Of Light.

American portrait artist and official, family or children painter by commission in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, Delaware, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Richard James Cook painter and artist paints prominent people both in America and Canada. While official portrait painting contributes to becoming respected in his field, Cook as a portrait artist and painter equally enjoys family portrait commissions and children portrait commissions. Cook's museum quality fine art commissioned portraiture at its essence is said to capture the subject's inner spirit. Cook is regarded a realist, he is an artist and painter with impressionist influence.
      American portrait artist and painter Richard James Cook has commissions of president portraits, C.E.O. portraits, lawyer portraits, college dean portraits, bishop portraits and military portraits.
      As a Member of The Portrait Society of America and The Portrait Institute, Cook is considered a portrait artist and painter of renown. Clients liken his light and color oil portraits to John Singer Sargent, a master artist and painter with a stroke of genius. Whether a luxury portrait painting is for prestige or for posterity, child or president, Cook's commitment to uncompromising quality is evident in his art. Often pets will appear in Cook's portrait paintings.
      Before Cook became an American portrait artist he spent a short time as a wildlife painter. Cook's art career began with being accepted at Cambridge College of Art in 1973 but he opted for a college with a more commercial art application. He graduated in 1976. Cook is known as artist and portrait painter in Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and Canada. He has been a painter and professional portrait artist for over a decade and has been represented as a portrait artist by brokers and galleries specialising in portrait artists in both Boston and Toronto.