This is now the character of all our landscape art; in such pictures we can breathe and live; their freshness is life; while the brown and yellow sadness of the studio landscapes of bygone years was the chronic malady of the art and its professors. — "The Society of British Artists," p. 141
Cole's work rests on a realism punctilious and pseudo-scientific in the recording of detail but utopian in the choice of subject and composition. — Tim Barringer, p. 70
Paintings
- Harvest Time
- Spring (or Springtime)
- The Heart of Surrey
- Iffley Mill
- The Pool of London
- The Palace of Westminster, London
Bibliography
Barringer, T.J. The Cole Family, Painters of the English Landscape, 1838 -1975. Portsmouth City Museums, 1988.
Chignell, Robert. The Life and Painting of Vicat Cole RA. 3 vols. London: Cassell, 1896. (All three vols. available on the Internet Archive, digitised from copies in the Getty Research Institute.)
"The Society of British Artists." The Art-Journal V (new series, 1859): 141-42. Google Books. Free Ebook. (Note that here the reviewer briefly discusses an earlier painting of Vicat Cole's, also entitled Springtime.)
Created 2 October 2022