Rex Vicat Cole

Reginald ("Rex") George Vicat Cole (1870–1940)[1] was an English landscape painter.

[2] His preferred subject matter was the landscape of the area surrounding Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales.

In 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.

He also wrote a book on Perspective, and planned another on The Streets of London, which was never published, although the manuscript survives, as do over two hundred works intended as illustrations.

He collapsed and died in 1940 in Sussex whilst helping to rescue a family whose car had become stranded in flood water.