Henry Augustus Loop

Henry Augustus Loop (1831–1895) was an American painter. A native of Hillsdale, New York who was educated in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, he studied with Henry Peters Gray in New York and Thomas Couture in Paris. 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 1864; their daughter Edith also became a painter. He died in Lake George, New York.

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 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

• David Bernard Dearinger; National Academy of Design (U.S.) (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925. Hudson Hills. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.