1820 - 1880
After a boyhood spent on a farm, Pope travelled in 1836 to Boston to study art. Seven years later he began exhibiting at the Boston Athenaeum. The 1849 Gold Rush drew him to California where he spent several years before returning to Boston. He then studied for some time in Paris and Rome before settling permanently in New York City in 1857.
Pope began exhibiting portraits and genre paintings at the Academy in 1857 and continued to do so for the next eight years. At his death, the Academy's council sent a letter to his widow which said, "Our departed friend was for so many years a Member of the Academy and his works so long adorned our exhibitions that we sadly miss him from his accustomed place amongst us, despite the consolation we might find in this memory of his upright character, his pure aims, and his pleasing social traits, and also in the remembrance that his life and works have born fruit and done honor both to himself and to his profession."
Pope began exhibiting portraits and genre paintings at the Academy in 1857 and continued to do so for the next eight years. At his death, the Academy's council sent a letter to his widow which said, "Our departed friend was for so many years a Member of the Academy and his works so long adorned our exhibitions that we sadly miss him from his accustomed place amongst us, despite the consolation we might find in this memory of his upright character, his pure aims, and his pleasing social traits, and also in the remembrance that his life and works have born fruit and done honor both to himself and to his profession."
