John Singleton Copley Date 1770-1772
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Français : 127 x 101.6 cm
cyf Portrait of Mrs. John Stevens American Colonial Era Painter, 1738-1815
John Singleton Copley (1738[1] - 1815) was an American painter, born presumably in Boston, Massachusetts and a son of Richard and Mary Singleton Copley, both Irish. He is famous for his portrait paintings of important figures in colonial New England, depicting in particular middle-class subjects. His paintings were innovative in their tendency to depict artifacts relating to these individuals' lives.
