Henry Augustus Loop was born in
Hillsdale, New York on September 9, 1831. He was educated in
Great Barrington, Massachusetts and 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 1865. 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==