Thomas Cole1842
The Voyage of Life — Childhood
Cole's allegory of the soul's journey — paired with Paul's "we walk by faith, not by sight" (2 Cor 5:7).

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About Thomas Cole
1801–1848 · American (English-born)
American Romantic landscape painter, founder of the Hudson River School. His allegorical cycles The Voyage of Life (1842) and The Course of Empire (1836) are visual sermons.