- John Singleton Copley - 168 artworks - painting - WikiArt. org
He is famous for his portrait paintings of wealthy and influential figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects His portraits were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives
- John Singleton Copley Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
In producing portraits of Paul Revere, and American founding fathers like Samuel Adams and John Hancock, Copley, albeit inadvertently, documented the building of the American nation His sophisticated early portraits reveal the country's coming of age as a self-governing entity
- John Singleton Copley (1738–1815) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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 - Wikipedia
According to art historian Paul Staiti, Copley was the greatest and most influential painter in colonial America, producing about 350 works of art With his startling likenesses of persons and things, he came to define a realist art tradition in America
- Paintings by John Singleton Copley - Wikimedia Commons
portrait of Harvard College president and astronomy professor John Winthrop End of auto-generated list
- John Singleton Copley: 11 works — Google Arts Culture
'During the two decades preceding the American Revolution, Copley emerged in Boston as the most distinguished of colonial artists His many portraits of influential New Englanders were remarkable
- John Singleton Copley - National Gallery of Art
John Singleton Copley, The Red Cross Knight, 1793, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs Gordon Dexter, 1942 4 2
- John Singleton Copley - 104 artworks - Art Renewal Center
In 1777 he was admitted associate of the Royal Academy; in 1783 he was made Academician on the exhibition of his most famous picture, the Death of Chatham, popularized immediately by Bartolozzi's elaborate engraving; and in 1790 he was commissioned to paint a portrait picture of the defence of Gibraltar
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