Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower by Thomas Cole, 1838, oil on canvas - National Gallery of Art, Washington - DSC00053
Summary
Italian Coast Scene with Ruined Tower by Thomas Cole, 1838, oil on canvas - National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. This painting is in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago.
Thomas Cole(1801–1848) inspired the generation of American landscape painters that came to be known as the Hudson River School. Born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire, England, in 1801, at the age of seventeen he emigrated with his family to the United States, first working as a wood engraver in Philadelphia before going to Steubenville, Ohio, where his father had established a wallpaper manufacturing business.
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Date
1838 - 1890
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Copyright info
public domain