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John Singleton Copley (1738-1815)
John S. Copley was one of colonial America’s most important portraitists. He spent his early life in Boston painting the rich, the famous, and the patriotic, including John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere. Ironically, the painter of patriots left America for England on the eve of the Revolution. Regardless, both his clientele and his remarkable attention to detail have made Copley’s work some of the most iconic images of [...] Click here to continue reading.
Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937)
The son of a wealthy Philadelphia physician, Colin Campbell Cooper was one of those fortunate, and rare, American artists like John Singer Sargent who was not only encouraged in his artistic aspirations, but also had the means to become a lifetime world traveler. His father, a surgeon, encouraged the young Cooper’s interest in music and literature; and his mother, an “amateur copyist” of watercolors, introduced the boy to art. After [...] Click here to continue reading.
George Esten Cooke (1793-1849)
George Cooke, born in Maryland in 1793, traveled all along the east coast painting portraits and landscapes. He spent five years in Europe studying art. In 1848, while traveling in Georgia he met Daniel Pratt, a wealthy industrialist who became a patron and gave Mr. Cooke two floors of his warehouse to be used as his gallery. Mr. Cooke exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum and his work can be seen [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Coney, Silversmith, 1655/56 to 1722.
According to Patricia Kane, “John Coney was the leading Boston silversmith of his time, and he remains renowned for his craftsmanship today. Coney was the first American silversmith to be the subject of a major exhibition and monograph”. (Quoted in Colonial Massachusetts Silversmiths and Jewelers. New Haven, 1998.)
Coney was apprenticed to Jeremiah Dummer, circa 1670. He had numerous apprentices, one of whom was the father of Paul [...] Click here to continue reading.
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Paul Colin (1892 to 1986)
Paul Colin was one of the most important graphic designers of theater and music hall posters during the French Art Deco period. In just one night, in 1925, his poster for the Revue Negre made Josephine Baker, jazz and himself the craze of all Paris. Colin went on to design hundreds of posters, stage sets, costumes and cabaret decorations, easily keeping up with the furious pace of the roaring [...] Click here to continue reading.
Henry Coley, 1633 to circa 1695
Henry Coley was the adopted son and amanuensis of the astrologer William Lilly, was, in addition to being an astrologer himself, an accomplished mathematician; he continued to publish Lilly’s celebrated almanack following the latter’s death.
Thomas Cole 1801 to 1848
Even though Thomas Cole was born in Lancaster England, he is often considered the father of American landscape painting as well as the founder of the Hudson River School. Cole immigrated to Philadelphia in 1819 and was an engraver for a brief period. Later he moved to Steubenville, Ohio where he gained some rudimentary instruction in painting from a portrait painter named Stein. Moving back to Pennsylvania to assist [...] Click here to continue reading.
C. C. Cole
Charles C. (CC) Cole (1887-1967) worked with his brother Everette from 1927 to 1933. At the death of their brother Clarence in 1937, Charles took over pottery production at the Steeds, North Carolina, shop that had originally belonged to their father, Ruffin Cole. An unfortunate accident shortly after the acquisition ended C.C. Cole’s pottery-making career. He was bitten by a copperhead snake and lost the use of his thumb.
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A. R. Cole
Arthur Ray (AR) Cole (1892 to 1974), son of Ruffin Cole and brother to Charlie (CC) Cole, worked in his father’s pottery shop in Seagrove, North Carolina, from 1915 to 1925. He left to open his own shop, Rainbow Pottery, an active commercial enterprise from 1926 to 1941. Cole established Rainbow Pottery in Steeds, North Carolina, but later moved it to Sanford on US 1, the tourist highway linking New York [...] Click here to continue reading.
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