John Singleton Copley
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. Related Paintings of John Singleton Copley :. | Alexander Cumming | Paul Revere | Mrs. Sylvester Gardiner, nee Abigail Pickman, formerly Mrs. William Eppes | Waston and the Shark | Dorothy Quincy | Related Artists: Georg Andreas Hoffmann1752 -1808 C. Grunewaldpaint Portrait of Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann German photographer in 1858 robert herrickThe English poet and Anglican parson Robert Herrick (1591-1674) invented a fanciful world compounded of pagan Rome and Christian England, of reality and fantasy, which he ruled as his poetic domain.
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