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Birth
1815 (Dublin, Ireland)
Death
1860 (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Lived/Active
Virginia
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itinerant portrait painting, landscape-genre
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The following information was submitted in May of 2006 by Terry Carpenter:
"John Toole (1815-1860) was born in Dublin, Ireland, and taken to Charlottesville, Virginia, as a young boy. Many documents relating to him and his art survive. From them it is possible to reconstruct both his private and his professional life and to see how a primitive painter could blossom into a highly competent artist. Toole began painting at the age of seventeen, and soon after h (showing 500 of 1363 characters). |
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