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
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Civil War Art
Hudson River School Painters
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