Thomas Cole (1801–1848)

THOMAS COLE (1801–1848)
View of Featherstonhaugh Estate Near Duanesburg, New York, 1826
Oil on canvas, 34 x 48 in. 
Signed and dated (at lower left): T. Cole / 1826

RECORDED: Elwood C. Parry II, The Art of Thomas Cole: Ambition and Imagination (Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1988), pp. 22, “List of Pictures Painted in New York, 1825–1826,” one of nos. 9–12, as “Views near Featherstonhaughs,” 30 fig. 6 illus. // Rebecca Bedell, “Thomas Cole and the Fashionable Science,” Huntington Library Quarterly 59 (1996), p. 357 // William L. Coleman, Something of an Architect: Thomas Cole and the Country House Ideal, unpub. Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2015, pp. 34–50, 126 fig. 37 illus. in color // William L. Coleman, “Painting the ‘Baronial Castle’: Thomas Cole at Featherson Park,” Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (2017), pp. 635–65, 636 fig. 1 illus. // India Nash, “In Exhibit: A Look at rare works of Thomas Cole,” Daily Gazette (Schenectady, New York), June 28, 2018, illus. in color

EXHIBITED: (possibly) The American Academy of Fine Arts, New York, May 1826, as “Landscape, the seat of Mr. Featherstonhaugh in the distance,” no. 78 // (possibly) The American Academy of Fine Arts, New York, May 1827, as “Landscape View near Duanesburgh,” no. 7 // (possibly) The American Academy of Fine Arts, New York, May 1828, as “Landscape view near Duanesburgh,” no. 3 // The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, January 30–November 25, 2018, Thomas Cole’s Paper Trail

EX COLL.: the artist; to George Featherstonhaugh, Duanesburg, New York, 1826; by descent, until the present