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Alexander Pope, Jr.
Alexander Pope Jr. (March 25, 1849 – September 9, 1924) was an American artist, both in paint and wood carving, mostly of sporting and still life subjects. He studied for a short time under the sculptor William Copley (artist), William Copley, and was one of America's popular gaming artists. Biography Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on March 25, 1849. He graduated from Dorchester High School (Massachusetts), Dorchester High School, and worked for his family's lumber business. He married Alice Downer on September 16, 1873. Pope studied with artist William Rimmer in the 1860s. He began carving wildlife in his early twenties, and moved on to painting. He published two sets of chromolithograph versions of his watercolor paintings: ''Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States'' (1878), and ''Celebrated Dogs of America'' (1882). Pope became a member of the Copley Society of Art of Boston after its founding in 1879. In the following years, his ani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Dorchester (colloquially referred to as Dot) is a Boston neighborhood comprising more than in the City of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This dissolved municipality, Boston's largest neighborhood by far, is often divided by city planners in order to create two planning areas roughly equivalent in size and population to other Boston neighborhoods. The neighborhood is named after the town of Dorchester in the English county of Dorset, from which Puritans emigrated on the ship ''Mary and John'', among others. Founded in 1630, just a few months before the founding of the city of Boston, Dorchester now covers a geographic area approximately equivalent to nearby Cambridge.History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
