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He is famous for his portrait paintings. When John Singleton Copley's dramatic painting of a shark attacking 14-year-old Brook Watson was displayed at London's Royal Academy in 1778, it made a stir. It had been 30 years since the attack was depicted.
John Singleton Copley lived in the XVIII – XIX cent., a remarkable figure of American Neoclassicism and Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
The greatest American painter of the eighteenth century, Copley's his portraits helped mark America's "coming of age" as an independent nation.
With the critical success of The Siege of Gibraltar (60.44.19) and his enormous tableau The Death of Major Peirson, Copley joined the top ranks of British painters, was elected to the Royal Academy, and won royal patronage that kept him painting until the very end of his extraordinary life.
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.
John Singleton Copley, Study for "The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar", 1783-1786, pen and brown ink with graphite on laid paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mrs. Josephine Boardman Crane), 2015.19.873
COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737-1815), English historical painter, was born of Irish parents at Boston, Massachusetts. He was self-educated, and commenced his career as a portraitpainter in his native city.
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John Singleton Copley (1738 – 1815) was an American painter from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the son of Irish parents, Mary Singleton Copley and Richard Copley. He is most known for his paintings of prominent people in colonial New England, particularly conveying middle-class subjects.
Portrait of a Boy (c. 1758-1760) by John Singleton CopleyThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 'Characterized by bold color, theatrical lighting, and attention to fine detail, this portrait...