Oldest painter
Who
Alphaeus Philemon Cole
Where
United States ()
When
Alphaeus Philemon Cole (USA, 1876–1988), whose work is in the permanent collections the National Portrait Gallery (UK) and the Brooklyn Museum (USA), actively painted and exhibited his work up to the age of 103. A portraitist, Cole began his studies in the 1890s, with the likes of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac as contemporaries.