Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet, Visconde de Monserrate

One Middle Bronze Age White Painted ram figure ties Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901) to Cyprus. David Morris's 1985 book lists it (pl. 245) as "formerly in the collection of Sir Francis Cook"⁴.

Cook was born at Clapham in 1817 and headed the textile firm Cook, Son & Co. from 1869. He bought Doughty House at Richmond in 1849 and Monserrate, near Sintra, in 1855. He was made Visconde de Monserrate, became a baronet of Doughty House in 1886, and died on 17 February 1901. He began collecting classical sculpture in the late 1850s². The 1908 catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the collection of the late Wyndham F. Cook says that they came mostly from Sir Francis's collection at Doughty House, where Michaelis saw them in 1873 and 1877. At his death the bronzes, gems and other works of art passed to his second son Wyndham¹. By 1955 many of the marbles from the collection at Doughty House were divided between the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum⁶.

Morris names only "Sir Francis Cook". After the Second World War the 4th Baronet, Sir Francis Cook (1907-78), sold most of the family's Old Master paintings⁵, and the ram may have belonged to either man.