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Jasper Francis Cropsey  American  1823 -1900
Born: Rossville, New York  
Died: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York  
Active:  Europe  1847-1849
New York, New York  1849, 1863
London,  England 1857-1863
Hastings, New York  
Addresses:  Hastings-on-Hudson New York  1885-on 
Studied: National Academy of Design 
London 1847-1850, 1857-1863
Rome 
Instructors: Joseph Trench 1837-1842
Edward Maury NYC
Specialty: Instructor
Painter
Memberships: National Academy of Design ANA 1844; NA 1851
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Fine Art as an Investment: Jasper Francis Cropsey (1832-1900)
by Lisa Bush Hankin

Though best known for his resplendent autumn scenes (Fig. 1), Jasper Francis Cropsey pursued a wide range of subjects over the course of his long and productive career and was among... (More)


Jasper Cropsey was a mid-nineteenth century painter and architect known for his detailed, romantic autumn landscapes. A member of the Hudson River School, he reached his artistic peak in 1860 with a nine-foot... (More)

Jasper Cropsey, born in 1823, was a landscape painter and architect. At the age of 13, Cropsey won a diploma from the Mechanics Institute for a house model he constructed. This achievement gained him entry into the archite... (More)

Jasper Francis Cropsey was one of the leading painters of the Hudson River School, whose work brought out the color and breadth of the American landscape. Cropsey took the heroic view of nature popularized by the nineteenth-ce... (More)

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