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Thomas Cole ( 1801 – 1848 ) Plate 11 Italian Landscape                                               Oil on board 5 5 / 8 x 9 inches provenance The artist Florence Cole Vincent, granddaughter of the artist Edith Cole Silberstein, the artist’s great-granddaughter Kennedy Galleries, Inc., NewYork Private collection, Virginia By descent in the family Sale, Christie’s, NewYork, May 26, 1994 , lot 3 Private collection Michael N. Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, LLC, NewYork exhibited Kennedy Galleries, Inc., NewYork, Thomas Cole, N.A. ( 1801 – 1848 ), November–December 1964 literature Thomas Cole, N.A. ( 1801 – 1848 ), exh. cat. (NewYork: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., 1964 ), p. 9 , no. 19 . Ellwood C. Parry III , The Art of Thomas Cole, Ambition and Imagination (Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Press, 1988 ), p. 309 , fig. 249 . related work Thomas Cole, Dream of Arcadia , 1838 , oil on canvas, 39 x 63 inches. Gift of Katharine H. Gentry, 1954 , Denver Art Museum. Thomas Cole, L’Allegro , 1845 , oil on canvas, 32 1 / 8 x 47 15 / 16 inches. Gift of the Art Museum Council and Michael J. Connell Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This gentleman [Cole] we consider one of the best landscape-painters of modern times. England may boast of her Stanfield,Williams, and Turner; France, of her distinguished artists; but what works have any of these produced surpassing the best of Cole’s? The New-York Mirror, 1840 1 Thomas Cole is unquestionably the most gifted landscape painter of the present age. In our own opinion, none superior to him have ever existed, when we consider, in connection with his felicity of artistic execution, the poetic genius which his productions display. charles lanman, author, artist, and explorer, 1843 2 Poetry and painting sublime and purify thought, and rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit: it is in fact the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures—an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment where all may drink and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, a keener perception of beauty of our existence, and a more profound reverence for the Creator of all things. thomas cole, 1841 3