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CROPSEY, JASPER FRANCIS (1823–1900)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 502 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CROPSEY, See also:JASPER See also:FRANCIS (1823–1900) , See also:American landscape painter, was See also:born at Rossville, Staten See also:Island, New See also:York, on the 18th of See also:February 1823. After practising See also:architecture for several years, he turned his See also:attention to See also:painting, studying in See also:Italy from 1847 to 1850. In 1851 he was elected a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design. From 1857 to 1863 he had a studio in See also:London, and after his return to See also:America enjoyed a considerable See also:vogue, particularly as a painter of vivid autumnal effects, along the lines of the See also:Hudson See also:River school. He was one of the See also:original members of the American See also:Water Color Society. He continued actively in this profession until within a few days of his See also:death, at See also:Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, on the 22nd of See also:June 1900. He made the architectural designs for the stations of the elevated See also:railways in New York See also:City.

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