About Theodore Jasper
Lived 1814 – 1897 (aged 82). Theodore Jasper was an American painter and zoologist.
Theodore Jasper (13 July 1814, in Prussia – 6 June 1897, in Columbus, Ohio) was a portrait painter and photographic colorist active in Columbus, Ohio from circa 1866 to 1883. From the 1840s to the 1860s he worked in New York and Connecticut (Haverstock, 2000). His paintings formed the basis for Studer's Popular Ornithology, a late 19th-century work that had several editions with chromolithographic copies of Jasper's art.
References and external links Theodore Jasper – Cornell University Birds of North America (1903 edition of Studer's Popular Ornithology) from University of Wisconsin, Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture Mary Sayre Haverstock, Jeannette Mahoney Vance, Brian L. Meggitt, Jeffrey Weidman (2000). Artists in Ohio, 1787–1900: a biographical dictionary. Kent State University Press. , (via Google Books)
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Who was Theodore Jasper?
painter (1814-1897)
When was Theodore Jasper born?
Theodore Jasper was born on 13 July 1814 in Kingdom of Prussia.
When did Theodore Jasper die?
Theodore Jasper died on 6 June 1897 in Columbus.
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Theodore Jasper was a painter and zoologist.
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Theodore Jasper was American.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Theodore Jasper. https://biography.guide/theodore-jasper/
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