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Among those five paintings, the first of their kind, stands Lake with Dead Trees. The oil-on-canvas painting was sold originally for twenty-five dollars in 1825.  Allowing for 191 years of inflation, the sum’s equivalent would now be $537.86.  While that was considered a respectable price and sale at the time, another work by Thomas Cole, Part of the Ruins of Kenilworth Castle, was recently put up to be auctioned with an appraisal of the painting estimated to be $200,000 to $300,000.  A style that began nearly two hundred years ago is still viable and commercially successful. Currently, the original resides at the Allen Memorial Art Museum of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, as it has since its donation in 1904 by Charles F. Olney.
Part of the Ruins of Kenilworth Castle Thomas Cole Allen Memorial Art Museum Oberlin, Ohio Charles F. Olney Oberlin Ohio Oberlin College