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Thomas Cole

1801 - 1848

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Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Cole is the 676th most popular painter (down from 394th in 2019), the 1,561st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 817th in 2019) and the 21st most popular British Painter.

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Among painters, Thomas Cole ranks 676 out of 2,023. Before him are Achille Devéria, Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Mikhail Nesterov, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Anton Graff, and Valentin de Boulogne. After him are Tadeusz Kantor, Philips Wouwerman, Carolus-Duran, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Margaret Keane, and Altichiero.

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Among people born in 1801, Thomas Cole ranks 26. Before him are Zénaïde Bonaparte, Immanuel Nobel, Prince Charles of Prussia, Albert Lortzing, Infanta Isabel Maria of Braganza, and William H. Seward. After him are Moritz von Jacobi, David Farragut, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Julius Plücker, Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, and Justo José de Urquiza. Among people deceased in 1848, Thomas Cole ranks 22. Before him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Joseph Mohr, James Dunlop, Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, and Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini. After him are John Jacob Astor, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Frederick Marryat, Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom, and Horace Wells.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 1,561 out of 8,785. Before him are George Cayley (1773), Guy Pearce (1967), Warren Hastings (1732), Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1565), Edward Lear (1812), and Emily Watson (1967). After him are Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), William McDougall (1871), Alun Armstrong (1946), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838), and Mary Ann Nichols (1845).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 21. Before him are Richard Hamilton (1922), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Thomas Lawrence (1769), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Edmund Leighton (1852), and Jack Butler Yeats (1871). After him are John Martin (1789), George Stubbs (1724), John William Godward (1861), Arthur Rackham (1867), James Gillray (1756), and Evelyn De Morgan (1855).

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