Friezes painted by Cole on the walls of his home, which had been decorated over, were discovered
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Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole was an Anglo-American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. He painted romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas.
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culture · Anglo-American artist (1801–1848) · painter · printmaker · illustrator · also Thomas Cole, T. Cole, Cole
Born 1 February 1801 · Died 11 February 1848 · Q334001
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1999· 1 entry
Cedar Grove, also known as the Thomas Cole House, was declared a National Historic Site in 1999 and is now open to the public.
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1848· 2 entries
Died 1848-02-11.
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Thomas Cole died at Catskill on February 11, 1848, of pleurisy.
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1843· 1 entry
His daughter Emily Cole (1843–1913) was a botanical artist who worked in watercolor and painted porcelain.
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1842· 1 entry
Cole embarked on the Grand Tour in an effort to study in the style of the Old Masters and to paint its scenery
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1838· 1 entry
To create the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio
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1836· 1 entry
Married Maria Bartow of Catskill, a niece of the owners, and became a year-round resident
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1832· 2 entries
“Years have passed away since I saw you & time & the world have undoubtedly wrought many changes in both of us; but the recollection of your friendship... [has] never faded in my mind & I look at those pleasures as”
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Cole emotionally wrote Wadsworth in July 1832: "Years have passed away since I saw you & time & the world have undoubtedly wrought many changes in both of us; but the recollection of your friendship... [has] never faded in my mind & I look at those pleasures as 'flowers that never will in other garden grow-'"
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1825· 1 entry
To Catskill, New York, where he lived with his children and wife until his death in 1848
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1822· 1 entry
Started working as a portrait painter and later on, gradually shifted his focus to landscape
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1801· 2 entries
Born 1801-02-01.
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Thomas Cole immigrated with his family to the United States in 1818, settling in Steubenville, Ohio
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