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This scene was painted around 1831 by the Hudson River School landscape painter, Thomas Cole. Cole was commissioned by Hickson Woolman Field (1788-1873), father of Eleanor Kingsland Field (Mrs. John Jay II). The artist’s initials “T.C.” are on the sail of a boat.