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John Singleton Copley / ˈ k ɑː p l i / RA (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was suspected to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish.
John Singleton Copley (born July 3, 1738, Boston, Massachusetts [U.S.]—died September 9, 1815, London, England) was an American painter of portraits and historical subjects, generally acclaimed as the finest artist of colonial America.
John Singleton Copley RA (1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was probably born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish.
Essentially self-taught, John Singleton Copley became the leading portrait painter in the colonies before moving to England in 1774. He painted miniatures between 1755 and 1770, creating roughly thirty oil-on-copper images and fifteen paintings in watercolor on ivory.
John Singleton Copley. American-British Painter. Born: July 3, 1738 - Boston, Massachusetts. Died: September 9, 1815 - London, United Kingdom. Movements and Styles: Neoclassicism. , Grand Manner Portraiture. , American Realism.
John Singleton Copley unexpectedly illuminated America’s colonial sky. The child of poor uncultured parents and only briefly the stepson of artist Peter Pelham, he became by 1760, as if by Providence, the colonies’ supreme artist, a position he retained until his departure for London in 1774.
John Singleton Copley, the foremost artist in colonial America, was virtually self-taught as a portraitist. By meticulously recording details, he created powerful characterizations of his Boston sitters.
John Singleton Copley (July 3, 1738 – September 9, 1815) was an Anglo-American painter, active in both colonial America and England. He was suspected to be born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, to Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Anglo-Irish.
Artist: John Singleton Copley (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1738–1815 London) Date: ca. 1767–70. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 50 x 40 in. (127 x 101.6 cm) Credit Line: Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1923. Accession Number: 23.143.
John Singleton Copley’s dramatic painting Watson and the Shark (1778) depicts a shark attacking 14-year-old Brook Watson. The work caused a sensation when it was exhibited at London’s Royal Academy in 1778.
Dec 6, 2023 · John Singleton Copley is commonly considered the greatest portrait painter in the history of the American colonies, and yet despite this sterling reputation, his life began at somewhat of a disadvantage. He was born in Boston to Richard and Mary, who presumably had recently emigrated from Ireland.
John Singleton Copley was the leading portraitist of the American colonial era. This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition of Copley's work organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, focuses on the paintings, miniatures and pastels which Copley produced before he moved to London in 1774.
Biography. John Singleton Copley was born in Boston in 1738, and grew up there, training in the visual arts under his step-father Peter Pelham (c. 1697-1751), an English engraver who had immigrated in 1727 and married Copley's widowed mother in 1748.
By the time the 1770s arrived, John Singleton Copley was the undisputed king of portraiture in the American colonies. Yet despite this fact, he had longed to visit the Old World, and he had, in fact, received much encouragement to permanently move to London.
American artist John Singleton Copley is one of the most renowned colonial-era painters. He is known for portraits of important figures such as Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams, as well as for dramatic scenes such as the National Gallery’s Watson and the Shark (1778).
Dec 6, 2023 · By the time the 1770s arrived, John Singleton Copley was the undisputed king of portraiture in the American colonies. Yet despite this fact, he had longed to visit the Old World, and he had, in fact, received much encouragement to permanently move to London.
Oct 28, 2012 · John Singleton Copley Biography. For a budding young artist in Colonial America the possibilities of making a living at his craft must have seemed rather daunting. There were basically only two types of painting provincial America was interested in--sign painting and portraiture.
Dec 6, 2023 · A former orphan, Watson became a wealthy and influential man—after surviving a near-fatal shark attack. John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778, oil on canvas, 182.1 x 229.7 cm (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.). Speakers: Dr. Bryan Zygmont and Dr. Beth Harris.
His fame during the second half of the nineteenth century comes from his appearance in Longfellow’s poem. Revere’s fame today, however, can be attributed—in part at least—to the remarkable portrait John Singleton Copley painted of the artisan in 1768.
3 days ago · Finding contemporary relevance in John Singleton Copley's painting, 'Watson and the Shark'. Sometimes, there is a core about us, and our lives, and that transcends all emotions, captured within a single expression. Sometimes there is, today, a picture — but then maybe more, a portrait, something old in time. Perhaps it surmises our times.
John Singleton Copley. Born Boston, Massachusetts, July 3, 1738. Died London, England, September 9, 1815. John Singleton Copley was arguably the most artistically accomplished and financially successful portraitist in colonial America. He has long been recognized by art historians for his ability to render the distinct textures of hair, flesh ...
John Singleton Copley American. ca. 1754. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774. A prodigious talent at fifteen, John Singleton Copley learned his trade by copying reproductions of Italian mythological paintings.
Dec 6, 2023 · His fame during the second half of the nineteenth century comes from his appearance in Longfellow’s poem. Revere’s fame today, however, can be attributed—in part at least—to the remarkable portrait John Singleton Copley painted of the artisan in 1768.
Watson and the Shark is an oil painting by the Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba. Copley, then living in London, painted three versions, which are all now in the United States.
John Singleton Copley American. 1773. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 717. Hannah Winthrop (1727–1790) and her husband, John, a professor of mathematics and natural history at Harvard College, were renowned for their success in cultivating rare fruit. Here, Copley portrayed Mrs. Winthrop's face and clothing, as well as the ...
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