Jeanette Shepperd Harrison Loop

Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Blue Dress with White Lace

Jeanette Shepperd Harrison Loop (1840–1909) was an American painter.

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Loop came from a distinguished family, counting among her ancestors Roger and Oliver Wolcott.^[1] Her first studies took place in her native city under Louis Bail, later continuing under George Henry Durrie and Wales Hotchkiss, and she set up practice as a portraitist in her hometown, where she was known for painting from life.^[1] She moved to New York in 1863 to continuee her studies under Henry Augustus Loop, who she married in 1864; the couple then toured Europe, visiting Paris, Rome, and Venice, and showed work at the Paris Salon of 1869.^[2] She was elected as an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1873, but never became a full member, missing out by one vote in 1876.^[1] Nevertheless, she continued showing at the Academy, where she had first exhibited in 1866 and 1867; having taken a break until 1871, she rarely missed an annual thereafter until 1905. Exhibiting as Mrs. Henry Augustus Loop, she established herself as a portraitist, especially of children,^[2] although she also painted a few idealized genre pieces of children as well.^[1] Her portrait in the National Academy collection is by her husband. She died in Saratoga, New York in 1909.^[2]

The Loops had four daughters; Edith also became a painter.^[2]

References

1. Harry Willard French (1878). Art and Artists in Connecticut. Lee and Shepard. pp. 170–.
2. 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.