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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.
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.
View all 159 artworks. John Singleton Copley lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of American Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
John Singleton Copley. American, 1738 - 1815. Biography. Works of Art. Artist Bibliography. 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.
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738-1815) Overview. 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.
Overview. Provenance. Title: Joseph Sherburne. 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. The American Wing at The Met.
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