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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: painting of Paul Revere.
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.
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.
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 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.
Show 30 60 90 results per page. 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 ...
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