Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Timothy Cole

Nationality: American
Date of birth: 1852
Place of birth: London, UK
Date of death: 1931
Category: printmaker

Identity:

Timothy Cole was born in London but the family moved to America.

Life:

He was a wood-engraver. His engraving of Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl y038 was published in Scribner's Monthly in 1879.

He was a friend of Whistler and Joseph Pennell in London, shortly after the death of Whistler's wife in 1896.

Bibliography:

Pennell, E. R., The Life and Letters of Joseph Pennell, London, 1930. Brownell, William C., 'Whistler in Painting and Etching', Scribner's Monthly, vol. 18, no. 4, August 1879, pp. 481-495, pp. 489-95, wood engraving by Cole p. 489.