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Vicat Cole
Vicat Cole is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *George Vicat Cole (1833–1893), English artist *Rex Vicat Cole Reginald ("Rex") George Vicat Cole (1870–1940) was an English landscape painter. Life Vicat Cole was the son of the artist George Vicat Cole and Mary Ann Chignell. He was educated at Eton and began to exhibit in London in 1890. In 1900 he ... (1870–1940), English artist, son of George Compound surnames {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Vicat Cole
George Vicat Cole (17 April 18336 April 1893) was an English painter. Life Cole was born at Portsmouth, the son of the landscape painter, George Cole (artist), George Cole (1810–1883), and in his practice followed his father's lead with marked success. He exhibited at the British Institution at the age of nineteen, and was first represented at the Royal Academy in 1853. His election as an associate of this institution took place in 1870, and he became an Academician ten years later. He died in London on 6 April 1893. The wide popularity of his work was due partly to the simple directness of his technical method, and partly to his habitual choice of attractive material. Most of his subjects were found in the counties of Surrey and Sussex, and along the banks of the River Thames, Thames. One of his largest pictures, ''The Pool of London'', was bought by the Chantrey Fund Trustees in 1888, and was shown in the Tate Gallery. He was the father of the painter Rex Vicat Cole. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rex Vicat Cole
Reginald ("Rex") George Vicat Cole (1870–1940) was an English landscape painter. Life Vicat Cole was the son of the artist George Vicat Cole and Mary Ann Chignell. He was educated at Eton and began to exhibit in London in 1890. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. His preferred subject matter was the landscape of the area surrounding Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales. In 1900, he married Hannah Gill, the daughter of a Yorkshire farmer. In 1901, an exhibition at Dowdeswell's Gallery collected his work under the title "A Year in Wharfedale". He taught at King's College London with Byam Shaw, and together they opened their own establishment, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, in Camden Street, Kensington in 1910. At the outbreak of the First World War Vicat Cole and Byam Shaw enlisted in the Artists Rifles although Shaw soon transferred to the Special Constabulary. After Shaw's death in 1919 Vicat Cole was Principal until his r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
