Lelia Smith Cocke

Lelia Maria Smith Cocke (March 18, 1859 – April 5, 1899) was an American painter.

Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Cocke was a descendant of Robert "King" Carter and William Thornton. She was the daughter of Francis H. Smith, a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Virginia, and his wife Mary Stuart Smith. She traveled to New York City to further her artistic education, taking lessons at the School of Design for Women at Cooper Union. In 1884 she returned to Virginia; the following year, in a ceremony at the University of Virginia, she married attorney Lucian Howard Cocke, a distant cousin, of which latter her father-in-law Charles Lewis Cocke was founder and president.