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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Cole has received more than 1,179,393 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Thomas Cole is the 394th most popular painter (up from 515th in 2019), the 816th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,086th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Thomas Cole ranks 394 out of 2,023. Before him are François Clouet, Koloman Moser, Oskar Schlemmer, Giambattista Pittoni, Bartholomeus Spranger, and Ferdinand Bol. After him are Gino Severini, Frederic Edwin Church, Jules Chéret, André Masson, Max Klinger, and Shitao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Thomas Cole ranks 13. Before him are John of Saxony, Joseph Plateau, Johannes Peter Müller, Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, and John Henry Newman. After him are Immanuel Nobel, Joseph Lanner, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Princess Sophie of Sweden. Among people deceased in 1848, Thomas Cole ranks 16. Before him are Caroline Herschel, Vissarion Belinsky, Nicolas Oudinot, María Isabella of Spain, Mohammad Shah Qajar, and Khachatur Abovian. After him are Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Joseph Mohr, James Dunlop, Branwell Brontë, and Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 816 out of 8,785. Before him are Osborne Reynolds (1842), John Ray (1627), Tim Roth (1961), Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (1158), John Harrison (1693), and Edmund Cartwright (1743). After him are Eric Burdon (1941), John Berger (1926), Kim Cattrall (1956), Dylan Thomas (1914), Edward Kelley (1555), and Macbeth, King of Scotland (1005).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 10. Before him are John Everett Millais (1829), Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), and Leonora Carrington (1917). After him are Thomas Lawrence (1769), Richard Hamilton (1922), Edmund Leighton (1852), John Tenniel (1820), Frederic Leighton (1830), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734).

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