Thomas Simon Cool

Thomas Simon Cool, a Dutch historical and genre painter, was born at the Hague in 1831. He studied at the Hague Academy under J. E. J. van den Berg, and first distinguished himself by his 'Atala,' exhibited in 1853. He resided in Paris from 1857 to 1860, and in Antwerp from 1861 to 1865. He died at Dordrecht in 1870.