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Thomas Cole

Entertainer 1801–1848

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19th-century American painter (1801-1848)

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“His work ought not to be a dead imitation of things without the power to impress a sentiment, or enforce a truth.”

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“Without Art Man would scarce be human; with it he rises above the brute and takes a diviner nature.”

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