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Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate
Sir Francis Cook (1817–1901) was a British merchant and art collector.
==Life==
In 1833 he entered his father's firm Cook, Son & Co. based in the City of London, which traded finished wool, cotton, linen and silk, after travels in Europe and the Near East, and from 1869 was its head, rising to be one of Britain's three richest men. In 1849 he bought Doughty House, Richmond and in 1855 the quinta of Monserrate in Sintra, Portugal, where he restored Monserrate Palace, a Moorish-style palace and became Visconde de Monserrate. He began to collect classical sculpture in the late 1850s. He collected his first major paintings in 1868, at which date Sir John Charles Robinson (1824–1913), former V&A curator, became his advisor. He had 510 major works by 1876 and in 1885 added a Long Gallery to Doughty House to accommodate the growing collection, making this gallery open to scholars.
In 1885 he married for the second time to the American feminist stockbroker and former clairvoyant Tennessee Claflin and in 1886 he was made the first of the Cook baronets. He died on 17 February 1901, leaving an estate of £1,600,000, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. He was succeeded by his son Frederick.
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