George Vicat Cole artist

George Vicat Cole artist Music, André Rieu George Vicat Cole (usually known as Vicat Cole) was an important landscape painter working in the mid-nineteenth Century. In keeping with the realist mood of that period, he painted naturalistic English landscape scenes, without attempting deeper meanings or looking for rustic ideals. Cole’s speciality was the effect of atmosphere and light. As a young man, he copied prints of works by Turner, Constable and Cox and the paintings of these artists had a strong influence on Cole. Born in Portsmouth, he trained in the studio of his father, George Cole (1810 – 1883) an eminent painter of landscapes, animals and portraits who rose as far as the Vice-Presidency of the Society of British Artists. Cole had a difficult start as a professional painter in the early 1850s when his pictures never sold for more than 40 Shillings. However, in 1854 he had his first picture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and from then on things looked up. At first C