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Last Name Pope
Given Name Alexander
alt. Names A. P. ; Alexander Pope JR. ;
Marriage
Children
Year born 1849 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
Year died 1924
Place of death Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Father's occupation
Relatives not to be mixed up with the English painter & engraver (born in Ireland) Alexander Pope SR. (1763-1835): http://viaf.org/viaf/28229776
Education studied for a short time under William Copley, studied carving, painting, perspective, and anatomy w. William Rimmer in Boston
Country of Activity United States of America
Worked for Upland Game Birds & Water Fowl of the United States (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1877-8) ; Celebrated Dogs of America (1882) ;
Patronage member of the Copley Art Association of Boston in the Late 19th c.
Collaborators
Techniques zoological and ichthyological watercolour and chromolithography ; woodcut & sculpture ;
Sample(s) www.philaprintshop.com/chromnat.html ;
Archival sources Brooklyn Museum; M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; National Museum of Wildlife Art; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope,_Jr. ;
Published sources http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=753 ; http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/34677/rec/42 #43 ;
other A. P. JR. was one of a group of important sporting artists who developed an American style of watercolors in the late nineteenth century. Many of these artists, including Pope, issued portfolios of chromolithographs after their watercolours.
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