Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, near Boston, Alexander Pope became known as a society painter who spent his entire life in the Boston area with a major interest in hunting and fishing and painting and sculpting art objects of those subjects. According to Alfred Frankenstein in his book, The Reality of Appearance, Pope was "of the back-slapping, club-going variety who spent his entire life in and around Boston."
Some of his paintings were trompe l'oeil still lifes with hunting themes a (showing 500 of 2564 characters). |
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Alexander Pope is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Trompe l'Oeil Painting
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