Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Thomas Cole (1801-1848)
Slavik Melnik
11/20/2005
Thomas Cole was born in 1801 in Lancashire, England, and was trained as an engraver of woodblocks used for printing calico. Because he did not have any formal education in art, his aesthetic ideas derived form poetry and literature, influences that were strongly to mark his paintings. The Cole family immigrated to America in 1818, but Thomas spent a year alone in Philadelphia before going on to Steubenville, Ohio, where his family had settled.
He spent several years in Steubenville designing patterns and probably also engraving woodblocks fort his fathers wallpaper manufactory. He made his first attempts at landscape paintings after learning the essentials of oil painting from a nebulous itinerant portraitist named Stein. In 1823, Cole followed his family to Pittsburgh and began to make detailed paintings of the place's beautiful landscapes. During another stay in Philadelphia, from 1823 to 1824, Cole was determined to become......
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