Background
Cope was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Cope was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
They had two children. He painted landscapes and still lifes. Between 1879 and 1882, he traveled around the American West.
When he got back to Philadelphia he taught art at Darlington Seminary.
Civil War Regalia of Major Levi Gheen McCauley, 1887, oil on canvas. In the collection of the Art Institute Chicago.