Background
He was the son of the painter Henry Brooke and a nephew of Henry Brooke, the author of A Fool of Quality.
He was the son of the painter Henry Brooke and a nephew of Henry Brooke, the author of A Fool of Quality.
He was a pupil of Samuel Drummond, and worked as a portrait painter. He exhibited portraits and figure subjects at the Royal Academy occasionally between 1810 and 1826, but is best known by his illustrations to books He died at Chichester in 1860.