English landscape painter, son of the artist George Vicat Cole. He was educated at Eton and began to exhibit in London in 1890. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He taught at King's College, London with Byam Shaw, and together they opened their own establishment, The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, in Kensington in 1910. After Shaw's death in 1919 Vicat Cole was Principal until his retirement in 1926. He collapsed and died in 1940 in Sussex whilst helping to rescue a family whose car had become stranded in flood water. The school of art he founded became part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2003. He was especially known for his paintings of trees, and he wrote and illustrated a book on British Trees (1907), and another on how to depict trees in art, The Artistic Anatomy of Trees, published in 1915. He also wrote a book on Perspective, and planned another on The Streets of London, which was never finished; the manuscript has been lost. In about 1905 Vicat Cole and his family began to rent the cottage of Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex, where he found the inspiration for many of his paintings and drawings. Between 1917 and 1921 he sub-let the property to Edward Elgar, who composed his last major works there
English landscape painter, son of the artist George Vicat Cole. He was educated at Eton and began to exhibit in London in 1890. In 1900 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists. He taught at King's College, London with Byam Shaw, and together they opened their own establishment, The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art, in Kensington in 1910. After Shaw's death in 1919 Vicat Cole was Principal until his retirement in 1926. He collapsed and died in 1940 in Sussex whilst helping to rescue a family whose car had become stranded in flood water. The school of art he founded became part of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2003. He was especially known for his paintings of trees, and he wrote and illustrated a book on British Trees (1907), and another on how to depict trees in art, The Artistic Anatomy of Trees, published in 1915. He also wrote a book on Perspective, and planned another on The Streets of London, which was never finished; the manuscript has been lost. In about 1905 Vicat Cole and his family began to rent the cottage of Brinkwells near Fittleworth in Sussex, where he found the inspiration for many of his paintings and drawings. Between 1917 and 1921 he sub-let the property to Edward Elgar, who composed his last major works there
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