James Hope ART FOR SALE

1818 Drygrange, Roxboroughshire, Scotland - 1892 Watkins Glen, New York. Known for: Landscape, portrait, and battle scene painting.

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James Hope was born on November 29, 1818/19 in Drygrange, Roxboroughshire, Scotland. After moving to the United States he became a noted portrait, landscape, and historical genre painter. After the death of his mother, he was brought to Canada by his father, who died of cholera about 1831. According to tradition James Hope was fifteen when he walked from the Canadian farm where he had spent his boyhood to Fairhaven, Vermont, to begin his five-year apprenticeship to a wagon-maker. With the money he saved, he was able to spend a year at Castleton Seminary. Apparently an accident to his ankle, which temporarily confined him to his home, gave him the leisure to try his hand at portraiture, and his first efforts were successful enough for him... Read full biography

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Vermont Hillside Farm

Type:painting

Size:38.25" x 46.00" x 2.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Front

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A detailed New England landscape by Scottish-American artist James Hope (1818-1892). Oil on canvas, unsigned, titled on artist placard “Vermont Hillside Farm,” and housed in a decorative giltwood frame. Dimensions: 32.13 in H x 40 in W, actual; 38.25 in H x 46 in W x 2 in D. Ref: 8

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