VICAT

COLE (1833–1893)  , English painter, born at Ports-mouth on the 17th of April 1833, was the son of the landscape painter, George Cole, and in his practice followed his father's lead with marked success . He exhibited at the British Institution at the age of nineteen, and was first represented at the Royal Academy in 1853 . His election as an associate of this institution took place in 1870, and he became an Academician ten years later . He died in London on the 6th of April 1893 . The wide popularity of his work was due partly to the simple directness of his technical method, and partly to his habitual choice of attractive material . Most of his subjects were found in the counties of Surrey and Sussex, and along the banks of the Thames . One of his largest pictures, " The Pool of London," was bought by the Chantrey Fund Trustees in r888, and is now in the Tate Gallery . See Robert Chignell, The Life and Paintings of Vicat Cole, R.A . (London, 1899) .