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Thomas Cole

1801 - 1848

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Thomas Cole (1 February 1801 – 11 February 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 1,110,059 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Thomas Cole is the 516th most popular painter (up from 755th in 2019), the 1,090th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,538th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Thomas Cole ranks 516 out of 1,421. Before him are Françoise Gilot, Paris Bordone, Jan Matsys, Giuseppe Crespi, Hannah Höch, and Salomon van Ruysdael. After him are Mikhail Larionov, Theodor Kittelsen, Constantin Meunier, Pieter Lastman, Carlo Dolci, and Michael Sittow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Thomas Cole ranks 19. Before him are Joseph Lanner, Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria, Antoine Augustin Cournot, Princess Sophie of Sweden, Prince Charles of Prussia, and George Biddell Airy. After him are Albert Lortzing, Moritz von Jacobi, Immanuel Nobel, Karl Baedeker, Marie Laveau, and Vladimir Dal. Among people deceased in 1848, Thomas Cole ranks 18. Before him are María Isabella of Spain, Nicolas Oudinot, Vissarion Belinsky, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Khachatur Abovian, and Mohammad Shah Qajar. After him are Joseph Mohr, Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este, Robert Darwin, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Frederick Marryat, and John Jacob Astor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 1,090 out of 7,765. Before him are Saint David (512), Stephen Harding (1059), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), W. T. Stead (1849), and David Bradley (1942). After him are John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford (1389), Isabella Bird (1831), Matilda of Scotland (1080), John Dryden (1631), Henry (1100), and Woodes Rogers (1679).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, Thomas Cole ranks 15. Before him are Richard Hamilton (1922), William Holman Hunt (1827), Frederic Leighton (1830), John Tenniel (1820), Edmund Leighton (1852), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734). After him are Thomas Lawrence (1769), John William Godward (1861), Evelyn De Morgan (1855), David Roberts (1796), John Martin (1789), and Sidney Paget (1860).

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