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Cole (THOMAS an American landscape)

THOMAS, an American landscape painter; born in Lancashire, England, Feb. 1, 1801. His father, a woolen in his father's shop for two years, but manufacturer, came to the United States the coming of a portrait-painter to the when Thomas was 18 years old, and setvillage made him wish to be an artist. painting portraits and landscapes. In After a few lessons he set to work to paint pictures, and traveled for a while painting portraits and landscapes. In New York, by hard work, he succeeded in becoming one of the best American landscape painters. He was enabled to go to Europe and study the old masters. four "The Voyage of Life." He died in Among his best pictures are the five called "The Course of Empire" and the Catskill, N. Y., February, 1848.