The painter Thomas Cole is said to be one of the first members of this group. He became very successful, starting in the eighteen twenties.

画家托马斯-考尔据悉是这个画家团体的始者之一，早在19世纪二十年代，他就已经非常有名了。

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The painter Thomas Cole is said to be one of the first members of this group.

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Even though Thomas Cole, by then in his 40s, may have been America's most established landscape painter, he wasn't wealthy himself.

WSJ: Hudson River Schooling

Kornhauser describes a painting by Thomas Cole, founder of the landscape-oriented, mid-19th-century Hudson River School, depicting a tourist attraction on the Connecticut River.

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At the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, a pencil sketch of "Catskill Mountain House From North Mountain" (1839-44) by Thomas Cole vividly conveys this expansive urge.

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