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Jasper Francis Cropsey
Born 18 February 1823, Rossville, Staten Island, New York
Died 22 June 1900, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
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| Cropsey was trained as an architect, taking up oil painting in 1841 and using his work as an architect to fund sketching trips to places such as Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, until 1845, when he abandoned architecture to pursue landscape painting. After his marriage in 1847 he spent two years in Rome. He returned to America in 1849, painting American landscapes and several large canvases after sketches made in Italy. He and his wife spent seven years, from 1856 to 1863, in England, where Cropsey exhibited at the Royal Academy, although his greatest success came in 1860 when he exhibited Autumn - On the Hudson River in his studio. On returning to America he continued to paint autumnal scenes, and renewed his interest in Greenwood Lake 1870. He also resumed his architectural practice, designing a Gothic Revival house for himself, as well as fourteen stations for New York's Sixth Avenue Elevated Railway (1876), but continued to paint until his death in 1900.
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