By James Hope
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Scotland in 1818, Hudson River School painter James Hope was a self-taught portrait and landscape artist. Hope established himself as a professional artist in West Rutland, Vermont in 1843 and taught painting and drawing at the Castleton Seminary. Hope took a studio in New York City and for twenty years he painted in New York during the winter and returned to Castleton in the summer. Hope exhibited in New York City at the American Art Union, National Academy of Design, Brooklyn Art Association, and had paintings exhibited in Philadelphia, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Detroit, Utica, Chicago and St. Louis. In the spring of 1871, Hope accepted a $10,000 commission to paint one of the waterfalls near the gorge at Watkins Glen just south of Seneca Lake...
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1870s Hudson River School James Hope Paintings