COPLEY, John Singleton The Copley Family dsf Painting ID:: 6142 COPLEY, John Singleton1.jpg
The Copley Family dsf c. 1776
Oil on canvas, 184,4 x 229,7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
COPLEY, John Singleton Self Portrait dfg Painting ID:: 6144 COPLEY, John Singleton3.jpg
Self Portrait dfg 1784
Oil on canvas
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
COPLEY, John Singleton Brook Watson and the Shark sdf Painting ID:: 6145 COPLEY, John Singleton4.jpg
Brook Watson and the Shark sdf 1778
Oil on canvas, 182 x 230 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
COPLEY, John Singleton Mrs John Winthrop dfg Painting ID:: 6146 COPLEY, John Singleton5.jpg
Mrs John Winthrop dfg 1773
Oil on canvas, 90,2 x 73 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
COPLEY, John Singleton Portrait of Rebecca Boylston (mk08) Painting ID:: 21943 new7/COPLEY, John Singleton-793669.jpg
Portrait of Rebecca Boylston (mk08) 1767
Oil on canvas,
127x101.6cm
Boston,Museum of Fine Arts
COPLEY, John Singleton The Death of Major Peirson (mk08) Painting ID:: 21944 new7/COPLEY, John Singleton-545346.jpg
The Death of Major Peirson (mk08) c.1782-1784
Oil on canvas,
247x366cm
London,Tate Gallery
COPLEY, John Singleton Self Portrait Painting ID:: 64558 new22/COPLEY, John Singleton-553376.jpg
Self Portrait 1784 Oil on canvas National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Artist:COPLEY, John Singleton Title: Self Portrait, 1751-1800, English , painting , portrait
COPLEY, John Singleton Portrait of Dorothy Quincy Painting ID:: 77065 new24/COPLEY, John Singleton-637453.jpg
Portrait of Dorothy Quincy Date ca. 1772(1772)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 127 ?? 100 cm (50 ?? 39.4 in)
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COPLEY, John Singleton Paul Revere Painting ID:: 83013 new24/COPLEY, John Singleton-856833.jpg
Paul Revere 1768(1768)
Medium English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 35 x 28 1/2" (88.9 x 72.3 cm)
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COPLEY, John Singleton Paul Revere Painting ID:: 83211 new24/COPLEY, John Singleton-734797.jpg
Paul Revere 1768(1768)
Medium English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 35 x 28 1/2" (88.9 x 72.3 cm)
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American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
American portrait painter, b. Boston. Copley is considered the greatest of the American old masters. He studied with his stepfather, Peter Pelham, and undoubtedly frequented the studios of Smibert and Feke. At 20 he was already a successful portrait painter with a mature style remarkable for its brilliance, clarity, and forthright characterization. In 1766 his Boy with the Squirrel was exhibited in London and won the admiration of Benjamin West, who urged him to come to England. However, he remained in America for eight years longer and worked in New York City and Philadelphia as well as in Boston. In 1774 Copley visited Italy and then settled in London, where he spent the remainder of his life, enjoying many honors and the patronage of a distinguished clientele. In England his style gained in subtlety and polish but lost most of the vigor and individuality of his early work. He continued to paint portraits but enlarged his repertoire to include the enormous historical paintings that constituted the chief basis of his fame abroad. His large historical painting The Death of Lord Chatham (Tate Gall., London) gained him admittance to the Royal Academy. His rendering of a contemporary disaster, Brook Watson and the Shark (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston), stands as a unique forerunner of romantic horror painting. Today Copley's reputation rests largely upon his early American portraits, which are treasured not only for their splendid pictorial qualities but also as the most powerful graphic record of their time and place. Portraits such as those of Nicholas Boylston and Mrs. Thomas Boylston (Harvard), Daniel Hubbard (Art Inst., Chicago), Governor Mifflin and Mrs. Mifflin (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), and Paul Revere (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston) are priceless documents in which the life of a whole society seems mirrored.