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1801 Lancashire, England - 1848 Catskill, New York. Known for: Landscape, history and allegory painting.
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.... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Keywords (58)
Art Method
- •Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Itinerant Artist
- •Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Hudson River School
- •Hudson River School Style of Painting
- •Luminous, Luminism
Art Subject
- •Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Narrative, Story Telling
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Catskill Mountains, New York
- •Europe
- •Hudson River Valley, New York
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Niagara Falls
- •Ohio Before 1900
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •West Virginia Before 1920
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •Brooklyn Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
- •John J. McDonough Collection
- •Lumen Reed Collection
- •Preston Morton Collection
- •Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Narrative Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Brooklyn Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts