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Thomas Cole (1801-1848), The Architect's Dream, 1840, American. Oil on canvas. 134.7 x 213.6 cm. Courtesy of The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio (http://www.toledomuseum.org); purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in memory of her father, Maurice A. Scott.

He was born at the very beginning of the nineteenth century in smoke-choked Lancashire, the last but one of the seven children of a not-too-successful English entrepreneur, James Cole, and his wife Mary Cole. When he died, prematurely at age 47, he was the much beloved painter of the American wilderness, a poet in the tradition of William Cullen Bryant, and a literary moralist in the tradition of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His name was Thomas Cole (1801-1848), and though he himself had no pupils save the American landscape painter Frederick Church (JAMA cover, September 25, 1987), he became the founder of what is today . . . [Full Text of this Article]