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Portrait of Dr. John W. Jones, Thomas Cole, Public domain

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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