Clarence Cook

Clarence Chatham Cook (September 8, 1828 – June 2, 1900) was a 19th-century American author and art critic.

In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War.

Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola.

In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, who published a journal called The New Path.

In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful.