Destruction from The Course of Empire
Destruction – from The Course of Empire c1836 by British-American Painter Thomas Cole (1801 – 1848); specializing in historical and landscape paintings that portrayed the American wilderness and is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School Movement.
This powerful painting depicts a once glorious and powerful empire in its last stages; as war rages on the sea and on the land amongst the grand statues, sculptures and columns of a great city state; with soldiers show no mercy to anyone, killing even women, bern, the old and the young; and in the background on the right we can see a once great city burning in flames as soldiers set it ablaze.
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Thomas was born in Bolton le Moors, Lancashire England in 1801 and at 17 years of age emigrated to the United States with his family, settling in Steubenville, Ohio in 1818.
Yn 1823 he left Ohio and moved to Philadelphia and then from there in 1825 moved to Catskill, New York, where he lived for the next 23 years with his wife and children.
Thomas started his career as an engraver and was almost completely self taught as a painter, using books to learn his craft and also studying the works of other artists.
Dan yn 1822 Thomas began working as a portrait painter and over time shifted his focus from portraiture to landscape and historical painting.
Thomas is considered to be one of the prominent 19th century American painters and the founder of the Hudson River School movement which was influenced by the Romanticism era of the late 18th century and mid 19th century.
Though Cole was primarily a landscape painter, he also produced allegorical artwork; mei syn meast ferneamde wêzen de fiif dielen rige The Course of Empire; dy't itselde lânskip oer generaasjes hinne ferbyldzje, fan in tichtby steat fan natuer oant foltôging fan it ryk, en dan ferfal en ferwoasting.
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