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Photo Album of the Stone & Sherman Families of Castleton Vermont -- Capt. James Hope, Artist
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See a collection of letters exchanged by James Hope (1819-1892) of Castleton, Vermont a portrait painter and landscapist, and his wife Julia, between 1853 and 1872. In addition, there are business letters to James Hope for this same period as well as miscellaneous family letters that span the Civil War period into the twentieth century.Born at Drygrange, Roxburghshire, Scotland, on November 29, 1818/19. After the death of his mother he was brought to Canada by his father, who died of cholera about 1831. According to tradition James Hope was fifteen when he walked from the Canadian farm where he had spent his boyhood to Fairhaven, Vermont, to begin his five-year apprenticeship to a wagon-maker. With the money he saved, he was able to spend a year at Castleton Seminary. Apparently an accident to his ankle, which temporarily confined him to his home, gave him the leisure to try his hand at portraiture, and his first efforts were successful enough for him to set up as a professional artist at West Rutland in 1843. The next two years he spent in Montreal painting portraits and then returned to Castleton, where he built a house in 1851 and supported his family by teaching painting and drawing at the Seminary.
More of this biography is found at VermontHistory.org
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