History of Jay, (Franklin County) Maine United States of America

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The Biography of Joseph Foxcroft Cole

Joseph Foxcroft Cole, painter, was born at Jay, Maine, Nov. 9, 1837. In his seventh year he was taken by his parents to Boston and was educated in the schools of that city. After leaving school he entered a lithographing establishment where he remained until 1860, starting in that year for Paris. There he studied art for three years in the government schools, and after a year in Italy he returned to Boston, opened a studio and won success as a landscape painter. On June 1, 1865, he was married to Irma De Pelgrom, a native of Neville, Belgium, and the same year returned to Paris and became a pupil of Charles ?mile Jacque. He exhibited in Paris in the salon of 1866, and again in 1867, and also in the International exposition of that year. He returned to Boston and in 1872 revisited France, remaining there five years and exhibiting at the Salons of 1873, 1874 and 1875. He also exhibited frequently at the Royal academy in London. He was elected a member of the Society of American artists in 1880. His principal works include Willow Brook; The Weakest goes to the Wall; A Pastoral Scene in Normandy (1875); A Norman Farm (1877); Cows Ruminating; Coast Scene in Normandy, and many paintings of New England scenery. He died in Boston, Mass., May 2, 1892.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor