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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.
Copley foi o maior pintor norte-americano da era colonial, deixando 350 obras de grande qualidade em estilo realista, um legado que exerceu decisiva influência sobra a pintura dos Estados Unidos no século XIX.
John Singleton Copley (Boston ?, 1738 - Londres, 9 de setembro de 1815) foi um destacado pintor dos Estados Unidos, também ativo na Inglaterra. Era filho dos comerciantes irlandeses Richard e Mary Singleton Copley.
- American
- Boston, United States
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.
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.
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.
