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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 (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.
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John Singleton Copley (Boston ?, 1738 - Londres, 9 de setembro de 1815) foi um destacado pintor dos Estados Unidos, também ativo na Inglaterra. Biografia. Era filho dos comerciantes irlandeses Richard e Mary Singleton Copley.
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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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 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 ...
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.
