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George Vicat Cole was an important landscape painter working in the mid-nineteenth Century. In keeping with the realist mood of that period, he painted naturalistic landscape scenes, without attempting deeper meanings or looking for rustic ideals. Cole’s specialty was the effect of atmosphere and light. As a young man, he copied prints of works by Turner, Constable and Cox and the paintings of these artists had a strong influence on Cole.

The artist Reginald Rex Vicat Cole was his son.