George vicat biography

Eorge Vicat Cole (1833-1893) was.
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George Vicat Cole RA (17 April 1833 – 6 April 1893) was an English painter.

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Springtime

Exhibited in 1865
Oil on canvas, 66.1 x 101.7 cm
Manchester Art Gallery

George Vicat Cole was an English painter. Vicat Cole was born at Portsmouth on 17 April 1833, eldest of five children of Eliza Vicat (of an old French Huguenot family, she will die in 1883) and the landscape painter George Cole (1810–1883). Initially exhibiting as ‘George Cole, junior’, from the mid-1850s he adopted his mother’s French Huguenot maiden name to distinguish his name from that of his father.

As a child, George Vicat was taught by his father and accompanied the older painter on journeys round country houses, where they would paint portraits of the owners, their horses, and dogs. He also made copies of prints after works of Turner and David Cox. Father and son took sketching tours together, in England, Wales, and also in Moselle, France.

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Harvest time near Holmbury Hill, Surrey

Watercolour on paper (1865)
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George Vicat Cole, 1833-1893

Identity:

George Vicat Cole was a landscape painter. He was the eldest son of the portrait, landscape and animal painter George Cole and Eliza Vicat. In 1856 he married Mary Ann Chignell. Their son Rex Vicat Cole was also a landscape painter.

Life:

Cole began his career working in his father's studio in Portsmouth, copying engravings after Turner, Constable and Cox. He also accompanied his father on sketching tours, visiting the Moselle region in 1851. He specialised in harvesting and river scenes set in the English countryside, for example Harvest Time (1860; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery), which was obviously influenced by the art of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His later landscapes, for example Heart of Surrey (1874; Manchester City Art Galleries), were broader in treatment. In 1879 he was commissioned by William Agnew to paint a series of 25 views of the Thames for engraving, for example, The Pool of London (1888; Tate Gallery, London), which was praised by Gladstone and purchased by the Chantrey Bequest. The project was not complet

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1901 supplement/Cole, George Vicat

COLE, GEORGE VICAT (1833–1893), landscape painter, the eldest son of George Cole [q. v.] by his marriage with Eliza Vicat, was born at Portsmouth on 17 April 1833. He was taught by his father, and studied, as a boy, the works of Turner, Cox, and Constable. He exhibited his first pictures, views in Surrey and on the river Wye, at the British Institution and the Suffolk Street Galleries in 1852. In 1853, after a tour abroad with his father, he exhibited 'Marienburg on the Moselle' and 'Ranmore Common, Surrey,' at the Royal Academy. For a few years, after a temporary separation from his father, he lived in London and gave drawing-lessons. He gained little by his pictures, and was often in straits. He made his name in 1861 by 'A Surrey Cornfield,' a view near Leith Hill, Surrey, exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery, for which he obtained the silver medal of the Society of Arts. He continued for years to spend his summers at Abinger or Albury, and to exhibit pictures of meadows and cornfields among the