Description: JASPER CROPSEY (AMERICAN, 1823-1900)
Self portrait etched by H. Velten, signed by Cropsey lower right. The artist's hand notation to lower right reads "very truly yours, Jasper F. Cropsey 1886," likely in recognition of the MacMurray Cropsey painting acquisition, label to verso.
MacMurray college housed a documented comprehensive collection of twenty-three (23) Jasper Cropsey oils on canvas which were auctioned at Christie's NY sale 1102 in July of 2002. Frame: 18.25"h. 14.25"w.