Henry Augustus Loop
{{Short description|American painter}}
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| birth_place = Hillsdale, New York
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1895|10|20|1831|09|09}}
| death_place = Lake George, New York
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| occupation = Painter
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| spouse = {{Marriage|Jeanette Shepperd Harrison Loop|1865}}
| children = Edith Harrison Loop
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Henry Augustus Loop (1831–1895) was an American painter.
Biography
Henry Augustus Loop was born in Hillsdale, New York on September 9, 1831.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=THRMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA239 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=XIII |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=239 |year=1906 |access-date=2020-08-20 |via=Google Books}} He was educated in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and studied with Henry Peters Gray in New York and Thomas Couture in Paris.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/57728185/obituary-record-henry-augustus-loop/ |title=Obituary Record: Henry Augustus Loop, N. A. |newspaper=The New York Times |page=5 |date=1895-10-21 |access-date=2020-08-20 |via=Newspapers.com}} He became an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1859, and was elevated to full membership two years later. Among his pupils was Jeanette Shepperd Harrison, who became his wife in 1865. Their daughter Edith also became a painter.
Loop died at his summer home in Lake George, New York on October 20, 1895.
Portraits in the National Academy's collection by Loop include a self-portrait, as well as those of his wife, James Renwick Brevoort, James David Smillie, and John Bunyan Bristol. Other Loop paintings can be found at the Jay Heritage Center,{{cite web|url=https://jayheritagecenter.blog/2019/03/16/descendants-of-two-patriots-help-preserve-portraits-of-the-founders/|title=Descendants of Two Patriots Help Preserve Portraits of the Founders|publisher=Jay Heritage Center|author=Zarina Iman|date=March 17, 2019 }} which owns a portrait of Irish patriot William Kerin Constable; Yale University which owns a portrait of theologian Jonathan Edwards; and the US Navy which owns a portrait of Admiral David Farragut.
References
- {{cite book|author1=David Bernard Dearinger|author2=National Academy of Design (U.S.)|title=Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHH45aYubp4C&pg=PR20|year=2004|publisher=Hudson Hills|isbn=978-1-55595-029-3|pages=20–}}
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Category:19th-century American painters
Category:19th-century American male artists
Category:American male painters
Category:People from Hillsdale, New York
Category:Painters from New York (state)
Category:National Academy of Design members
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