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Thomas Cole

American painter
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Thomas Cole (born February 1, 1801, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, Englandā€”died February 11, 1848, Catskill, New York, U.S.) was an American Romantic landscape painter who was a founder of the Hudson River school. Coleā€™s family immigrated first to Philadelphia and then settled in Steubenville, Ohio. He was trained by an itinerant portrait painter named Stein and then spent two years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1825 some of Coleā€™s landscapes in a New...

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