Portrait of Dr. John W. Jones
Thomas Cole · 19th century · Oil on panel
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
How this license was checked
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About this picture
Portrait of Dr. John W. Jones is a public-domain painting by Thomas Cole, dated 19th century. Oil on panel. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Portrait of Dr. John W. Jones” (19th century) is either a Catskill view or one of Cole’s allegorical landscapes, where the scenery is also a story about the course of a civilization.
About the artist
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) was the founder of the Hudson River School. He painted the Catskills and also allegorical series about the course of empires, using landscape as a moral story.
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