Mr. Pops was bom in DorchesteT. 

 March 25, 1840, a son of Alexander and r i 

 Charlotte Caldwell (Gushing) Pope, and 

 was educated in the Boston publla 

 schools. In his chosen field of art, how- 

 ever, he wbb self-taught. In his early 

 years he turned his attention to game 

 birds, painting thetn from models he 

 carved first from pine wood. Two of 

 these were bought by the Czar of Rus- 

 sia. Later he gave special attention 

 to animals and still -life, while In recent 

 years he had confined himself to por- 

 traits, 



SCULPTOR AND ARTI6T 



Boston knew him best through his 

 painting of "The Gladiator" at the 

 Copley Square Hotel, the Kensington 

 Hons on Boylston street and his famous 

 plature of a caged lion, painted a num- 

 ber of years ago at P. T. Barnum'a 

 winter^ quarters at Bridgeport, Ct., 

 which hung for many years in the store 

 of A. Shurnan & Co. It was often said 

 of tills picture that little children drew 

 back In fear on catching sight of tho 

 life-like beast. 



His work, "Our Vanishing Wild Life," 

 shown at the San Francisco exposition, 

 was selected by the committee on 

 sculpture as one of the best examples 

 of American sculpture. In 1880 he pub- 

 lished a series of game bird plates 

 called "Upland Game Birds and Water 

 Fowl of the United States," and, al- 

 though few knew it, he was the ardent 

 advocate of the zoological gardens at 

 Franklin Park when they were first pro- 

 posed and was responsible, perhaps 

 more than any one else, for finally as- 

 sembling' the collection of animals now 

 housed there. 



Ho was a member of the Boston Art 

 Club, the St. Botolph Club and the New 

 England Kennel Club. For many years 

 he maintained a studio at 120 Tremont 

 street, while his Boston home was at 

 1013 Beacon street. In 1878 he married 

 Miss Alice De Wolf Downer of Dorches- 

 ter. She and their two children, Sam- 

 uel Downer Pope of Wakefield and 

 Charlotte De Wolf Pope, now Mrs. John 

 B. Chamberlain of Stearns road. Brook- 

 line, survive him. 



