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Title: The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, R. A.
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Chignell, Robert
Subjects: Cole, Vicat, 1833-1893
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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60 VIC AT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. many rare qualities. They are renderings, perfectlyunaffected and free from mannerism, of sunny viewsfamiliar to all Englishmen. Knowledge of Nature andof every resource of Art is conspicuous throughout.Splendour of colouring, masterly designing, accuracyand feeling in the representation of tree-forms andfoliage, harmonious balancing of light and shade, andhappy grace in composition are noticeable featuresin all. Much as Vicat Cole disliked being classed as apainter of cornfields, he could not but be gratifiedby the universal and hearty admiration which thesepictures inspired. That admiration may be felt andexpressed without doing injustice to his fame, pro-vided that it does not cause the great range of theartists powers, and the force and beauty of hispainting of other scenes and effects, to be overlookedor undervalued.
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THE THAMES AT HARTS WOOD. ALE-WAY between Streatley and Pangbournethere is a bend in the river where the roweralmost involuntarily lifts his sculls out ofthe water, and turns to watch the scenery asthe boat drifts slowly down stream. Fromthis spot, so irresistible in its attractions, Vicat Coletook The Thames at Hartswood, painted in 1891.This picture is full of light and colour, and is, perhaps,the only one in which the artist has depicted theattractions of the river and of the harvest-field on thesame canvas. Both are painted as he alone could repre-sent them. The light on the hills and on the woods,tinged with the hues of early autumn, is very soft andsweet. It would be difficult to imagine a more lovelysky. Radiant cumuli clouds, bold in form and ex-quisitely soft in texture, stand out from the blue ether,whilst films of light cirrus melt away into its bosom.It is an ideal scene of tranquil beauty, perfectly realised,perfectly presented. STUDY llU! ■• PANCISurUXK. -pangbourne/

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