Jasper Francis Cropsey
Jasper Francis Cropsey was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropseys farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from school, Cropsey taught himself to draw. His early drawings included architectural sketches and landscapes drawn on notepads and in the margins of his schoolbooks.
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