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My great-grandfather Thomas Cool (Sneek 1871 - Bussum 1904) is mentioned by Christopher Wright, “Paintings in Dutch Museums”, p81. He is hardly known. A general characterisation is, if I may try, that his paintings are between realism and impressionism, with a dreamy quality that is hard to pin down.

There is a painting in the Frans Hals Museum and one in Boymans-van Beuningen. Some huge paintings on Saint Peter's Cathedral were once stored in the attic of the Peace Palace in The Hague but eventually deteriorated too much, and have been destroyed. My father has a list of what still remains. 

An aquarel Thermen van Caracalla (about 1895) has been donated by my father to the Stichting Schone Kunsten. 

A painting Santa Maria Maggiore (about 1895) but this is a photo of a photocopy.

This is "Colosseum bij maanlicht" ("Colosseum in moonlight"), made somewhere in 1890-1895, size 210 x 157 cm, but with the frame 255 by 205 cm (width vs height). This is a close-up of the center. This JPEG is distorted by the use of a wide angle lense but as a picture it actually is quite adequate since it conveys the size of the painting. The painting clearly requires restoration.

Apparently, the character "Duco van der Staal" in Couperus book "The inevitable" (1900) has been inspired by my great-grandfather (see the Dutch discussion above).

This link discusses prize-winning Dutch children books in 1914-1940. My great-aunt Tine Cool, daughter of this TC, apparently won a first prize in a contest with her book "Wij met ons vijfen in Rome" ("The five of us in Rome") in 1928, with autobiographical elements of living in Rome as a child in an artist's family. The jury consisted of well-known Dutch writers such as C.Joh. Kieviet, Theo Thijssen, Top Naeff and J.P. Zoomers-Vermeer. Interested readers still can find the book fully digitalized in the Royal Library (KB).

A nephew is painter Thomas (Simon) Cool (1831-1870).