Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley  1887

George Cope spent most of his life in West Chester, Pennsylvania where he specialized in local landscapes and still-life paintings. This large work, known in the 19th century as an “exhibition hanging picture,” was Cope’s first documented canvas in the trompe l’oeil (fools the eye) style. Commissioned in 1887 by the artist’s friend Levi McCauley, a leading citizen of West ...