William Delafield Cook AM (1936–2015) was an Australian artist who was known for his photorealistic landscapes.
[2] [3][4] His grandfather, who was also named William Delafield Cook, was also a painter and had links to the Heidelberg School of Australian painting.
[4][5] In 1962 he married 1962 Sally Patricia Bovington, with whom he had two daughters, and a son, the artist Jonathan Delafield Cook.
In 2013 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the visual arts as a realist painter of Australian landscapes".
[6] He died after a brief illness in London on 29 March 2015, where he had been preparing for an exhibition; he was aged 79.