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George Cole Art

British, 1810-1885

George Cole was a portrait landscape and animal painter in oils. He was the father of George Vicat Cole. Cole was born in Portsmouth to James and Elizabeth Cole. His mother died when he was nine years old. According to the artist's grandson, Rex Vicat Cole, he was apprenticed to a ship's painter in the Royal Navy dockyards at Portsmouth. He taught himself to paint pictures, at first portraits and animals; he also painted posters for Wombwell's menagerie. In 1838, Cole's painting The Farm Yard was shown at the Society of British Artists. When he was 30, he changed his focus to landscapes and received instruction from John Wilson and started exhibiting in 1840. One anecdote has him painting the portrait of a Dutch merchant in Portsmouth. After the sitter refused to pay him, saying it was a bad likeness, Cole added wings and put the painting in a shop window with the title The Flying Dutchman. The man's friends recognized him and laughed; he paid for the painting and Cole painted out the wings. His career has been regarded as a good example of the Victorian self-made man. In 1831, he married Eliza Vicat, of an old French Huguenot family. In 1852, he moved to Fulham and in 1855 to Kensington, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the mid-1860s, he purchased Coombe Lodge, a small estate in Hampshire. In a series of richly colored and detailed landscapes on large canvases executed during the 1860s and 1870s, Cole created an idealized version of the Hampshire moorlands and agricultural landscape; examples include Fern Karting, Harting Coombe (1873, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth). Cattle continued to play an important role in his compositions and he specialized in the depiction of river scenery with cows watering, including, for example, Windsor Castle. Although he exhibited 16 works at the Royal Academy, Cole's work formed a mainstay of the exhibitions of the Society of British Artists at Suffolk Street, where he exhibited 209 paintings from 1838 until he died in 1883. He was elected a member in 1850, became an auditor in 1856 and vice-president in 1867. He was also awarded a medal for a harvesting scene in 1864 by the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts. George Cole died on 7 September 1883 at his home at 1 Kensington Crescent and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London.

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Artist: George Cole
A Stream in the Forest - British Victorian 1859 art landscape oil painting
By George Cole
Located in London, GB
A fine and very detailed large Victorian British landscape painting. Painted in oil on canvas it is by listed and exhibited Victorian artist George Cole, dated 1859. A wonderful larg...
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19th Century Realist George Cole Art

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Oil

Fine Mid 19th century Victorian Oil Painting Cattle Watering from Woodland Pool
By George Cole
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day by George Cole (1810-1883) *see below oil on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 22 inches canvas: 12 x 16 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, UK conditio...
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Mid-19th Century Victorian George Cole Art

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Canvas, Oil

Sheep Resting In A Landscape, Near Guildford, Surrey, 19th Century
By George Cole
Located in Blackwater, GB
Sheep Resting In A Landscape, Near Guildford, Surrey, 19th Century by George COLE (1810-1883) Fine huge 19th century English landscape with sheep resting, near Guildford, Surrey, ...
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19th Century George Cole Art

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century landscape genre oil painting of ploughmen with horses & a dog
By George Cole
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
George Cole British, (1810-1883) Waiting for a Treat Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1857 Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches Size including frame: 26.25 inches x 36.25 inches Georg...
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19th Century Victorian George Cole Art

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Canvas, Oil

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