Thomas Cole

• Name: Thomas Cole
• Birth Year: 1801
• Death Year: 1848
• City of Birth: Bolton le Moors, England
• Notable Characteristics: Engraver and landscape painter
• Notable Artwork: The Oxbow, The Course of Empire

Thomas Cole was an industrial and urbanist painter who moved to Philadelphia at 22 and began the Hudson River School movement, which focused on romantic landscape depictions of the Hudson River Valley.

Cole mostly painted landscapes with vivid details that began as sketches and he later turned into finished paintings.

Thomas Cole Artwork

• The Voyage Of Life: Youth