Lot 436
James Hope, A.N.A (Scottish/American, 1818-1892), "A Forest Pool", oil on canvas, signed and dated "1869" lower right, 15 1/8 in. x 20 1/4 in., in a fine period giltwood frame. E2000-3000 Note: Having journeyed with his parents from the Highlands of Scotland to Canada in the 1820s, Hope immigrated to Vermont for a mechanical apprenticeship in 1833-1838, and a year at the seminary in Castleton; he married in West Rutland in 1841, and became a professional artist there in 1843. After painting in Montreal from 1844 to 1846, he returned to teach and paint in Castleton, on the Vermont-New York border near Lake George. There in 1849 he met Frederic E. Church (1826-1900), who exercised a strong influence on his painterly technique, and encouraged him toward New York. Hope had his work accepted at the National Academy of Design in 1854 (of which he was elected an Associate in 1871), and from the early 1850s occupied a studio in New York each winter. He served in the Union army during the Civil War, after which he moved to central New York State, where he settled at Watkins Glen, on Seneca Lake ( 1872).
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