Thomas Cole
English-American artist
Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Wikipedia
Born: February 1, 1801, Bolton le Moors
Died: February 11, 1848 (age 47 years), Catskill, NY
Periods: Hudson River School and Romanticism
Series: The Course of Empire and The Voyage of Life
Children: Emily Cole, Thomas Cole, Jr., Theodore Alexander Cole, and more
Siblings: Sarah Cole
Artworks
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