Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
- Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900)
- View of Catskill Creek, 1848
- Oil on canvas
- 16 x 25 inches
- Signed and dated 1848, inscribed “Rome,” lower left
Early in his career, Jasper Francis Cropsey was placed on the same tier as the most venerated Hudson River School painters. A critic of the National Academy of Design’s exhibition of 1847 commented, “Mr. Cropsey is one of the few among our landscape painters who go directly to Nature for their materials…and it is no disparagement to the abilities of those veterans of landscape art, Cole and Durand, to prophesy that before many years have elapsed, he will stand with them in the front rank, shoulder to shoulder.”[1]
