The Departure by Thomas Cole - Undertaking A Glorious Mission

The Departure

The Departure c1837 by 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 scene of a bygone era, depicts a cavalry of about seventeen that have left a castle on a fortified hill riding on road over a bridge with an arch gate positioned on it.

The men and horses are outfitted in beautiful eye catching attire that stands out against the lush green grass and trees of the terrain.

On their way on the dirt trail by a stone structure with a saint on the top where the soldiers are passing to their right is a monk giving them his blessing on the mission they are undertaking.

A bit farther down the road is a structure with a fountain embedded in its wall where there is a shepherd standing as his goats relax on the grass in the distance and another approached the structure from the road; as well as a maiden gathering water in a jug.

In the far distance on the opposite side of the road and castle we can see a fairly large town by the shore of a sea that is populated with sailboats.

Behind the castle there is a large bluff with scattered trees and grass on it and a small waterfall; and behind that a very large mountain that is partially cover with clouds, and with large cloud formations on either side of it.

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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.

ʻI he 1823 he left Ohio and moved to Philadelphia and then from there in 1825 moved to Catskill, Niu ʻIoke, 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.

Pea ʻi he 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; with the his most famous being the five part series The Course of Empire; which depict the same landscape over generations, from a near state of nature to consummation of empire, and then decline and desolation.