Portrait of Thomas Cole

c. 1845

Frederic Edwin Church

Associated Names
Frederic Edwin Church

Artist, American, 1826 - 1900

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.46 × 15.24 cm (6 7/8 × 6 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.89.17

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Cole, Catskill, New York, until 1848; Theodore Cole, his son; Mary Emily Cole Van Loan, his daughter, until 1967; (Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York); acquired 1973 by John Wilmerding.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004.

2014

  • Master, Mentor, Master. Thomas Cole and Frederic Church., Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, 2014, unnumbered figure on title page of catalogue.

Bibliography

1988

  • Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church and the National Landscape. Washington: 1988, I, xii.

2004

  • American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004: no. 2.

Inscriptions

lower left: F. Church; bottom center: Thomas Cole; upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: Thomas Cole / Drawing by Fred E. Church / probably in 1847.

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