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Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) was active/lived in New York / England.  Thomas Cole is known for Landscape, history and allegory painting.

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Thomas Cole  was born on February 1, 1801 in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England. He was the shy and sensitive son of an English immigrant who settled in Steubenville, Ohio, where he arrived in 1818. He had set up shop as a wallpaper maker, and Thomas helped his father with designs and was shown how to paint likenesses by an itinerant portrait painter who traveled from town to town in early America. He set out to be a traveling portrait painter himself.  Yet as he rested by the roadside he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him, he decided to become a landscape painter and left for New York City where prosperous merchants were eager to purchase paintings for their new mansions. During the summer he embarked on what was to be one of many sketching trips up the Hudson River Valley.

Cole studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1823 and in 1825 he moved to New York where he was discovered by John Trumbull, William Dunlap and Asher Dur   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15827 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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