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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.
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Learn about John Singleton Copley, an Anglo-American painter who created portraits of colonial New England figures. Explore his biography, artworks, and style of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.
- American
- July 3, 1738
- Boston, United States
- September 9, 1815
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.
Learn about the life and work of John Singleton Copley, the supreme colonial artist and the greatest American painter of the eighteenth century. Explore his portraits of American founding fathers, his neoclassical style, and his artistic legacy.
- American-British
- July 3, 1738
- Boston, Massachusetts
- September 9, 1815
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Learn about the life and works of John Singleton Copley, the most celebrated American artist of the 18th century. Explore his portraits, history paintings, and biography on the museum's website.
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. Copley's earliest paintings, from the mid-1750s, reveal the influence of English mezzotint portraits as ...
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