Discover painter, draftsperson, etcher Thomas Simon Cool

Qualifications: painter, draftsperson, etcher, lithographer, art teacher
was a teacher of drawing at the Military Academy (1866-1870)

Nationality/school: Dutch

Born: The Hague (city) 1831-12-12

Deceased: Dordrecht (city) 1870-08-29
committed suicide

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: related to the painter Thomas Cool; his sister Emma Johanna Henriëtta was the wife of the bookseller and publisher Martinus Nijhoff (1826-1894)

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

studied together in Paris (1860-1861)

This person/entity in other databases

7 hits in RKDimages as artist
1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject
12 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist

Suggested searches in RKDartists&

Biographical information

Period of activity: 1846 - 1870
ca. 1846-1870

Education: Akademie van beeldende kunsten (Den Haag)

1844-1854

Active in

Parijs 1856 - 1860
arrival in the spring of 1856 together with Taco Scheltema; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, pp. 9-10
Den Haag (stad) 1856
summer of 1856 at his parental home; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, p. 10
Den Haag (stad) 1857
summer of 1857 at his parental home; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, p. 10
Den Haag (stad) 1858
summer of 1858 at his parental home; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, p. 10
Den Haag (stad) 1859
summer of 1859 at his parental home; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, p. 10
Den Haag (stad) 1860
summer of 1860 at his parental home; M. Reinders, Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder; "zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan..." (tent. cat. Museum Paul Tetar van Elven), Delft 2005, p. 10
Antwerpen (stad) 1861 - 1865
for study; Rue Montebello 19; C. Vosmaer, Schetsen en Studiën, Leiden 1882, p. 243
Breda (plaats) 1875
before 1875; According to the Breda city archives he lived on the Havermarkt before he left for Dordrecht.
Dordrecht (stad)
Rome
stayed there regularly

born in

active in

died in

Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Berg, Jacobus Everhardus Josephus van den
Leys, Henri
gaf raadgevingen aan W.C. Staring
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Es, Nicolaas Jan Adriaan Pieter Helenus van
Staring, Willem Constantijn

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: history (genre), genre, landscape (genre), portrait

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 1 hit in RKDlibrary as subject

Nederland's Patriciaat 1910- , vol. 17 (1927), p. 134, nr. IVbis-3
Scheen 1969-1970
Witt Checklist 1978
Scheen 1981 , p. 98 (as: Cool, Thomas Simon;*)

C. Vosmaer, 'Thomas Simon Cool', De Nederlandsche Spectator (1870), p. 354-356; zie ook: p. 434
C. V[osmaer], 'Necrologie Thomas Simon Cool', Kunstkronijk NS 12 (1871), p. 64
C. Vosmaer, Over Kunst. Schetsen en Studiën, Leiden 1882, p. 239-245 [over T.S.C.]
G.H. Marius, De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de negentiende eeuw, 's-Gravenhage 1920, p. 41-42, 47
J. Knoef, Een eeuw Nederlandse schilderkunst, Amsterdam 1948, p. 94
A. Staring, Kunsthistorische verkenningen dl. 3, 's-Gravenhage 1948, p. 97, 187
J.F. Heijbroek en E.L. Wouthuysen, Portret van een kunsthandel. De firma Van Wisselingh en zijn compagnons 1838-heden, Zwolle 1999, p. 23-24
A. Polman, 'Vaardige cadetten en creatieve officieren. De opkomst van het artistieke handtekenen binnen de officiersopleiding tot en met de Koninklijke Militaire Academie', Armamentaria. Jaarboek Legermuseum 37 (2002), p. 31-57; p. 53
W. van Giersbergen, De kunst is geheel en al bijzaak. De moeizame carrière van C.C. Huijsmans (1810-1886), tekenmeester in Brabant, Amsterdam 2003, p. 169-170
M. Reinders, 'Zoo vele talenten in zielepijn vergaan...', Thomas Simon Cool 1831-1870 kunstschilder. Delft 2005. Uitgave bij de gelijknamige tent, Delft (Museum Paul Tetar van Elven) 8/4-30/10-2005 [betr. de tent. van dagboeken, schetsboeken en schilderijen van de kunstenaar]

Documentation RKD

This field specifies the location of the various RKD documentation materials. Most of the locations refer to our art-historical image documentation. In addition, you will find references to press documentation (clippings and short articles) here.

Project: The Dutch in Paris - Retour de Paris

Permalink: https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/18100

Creation date: 1991-12-02; Last modified date: 2022-11-04

Explore

Thomas Simon Cool

Comments

My selections