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John Singleton Copley BiographyAmerican painterborn 1737 - died 1815 Student of:
Benjamin West (1738-1820). |
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| COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737-1815), English historical painter, was born of Irish parents at Boston, Massachusetts. John Singleton Copley was self-educated, and commenced his career as a portrait painter in his native city. The germ of his reputation in England was a little picture of a boy and squirrel, exhibited at the Society of Art in 1760. |
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In 1774 he went to Rome, and thence in 1775 came to England. In 1777 John Singleton Copley painter was admitted associate of the Royal Academy; in 1783 he was made Academician on the exhibition of his most famous painting, the Death of Chatham, popularized immediately by Bartolozzi's elaborate engraving; and in 1790 John Singleton Copley was commissioned to paint a portraits painting of the defence of Gibraltar. The Death of Major Pierson, in the National Gallery, also deserves mention. His powers appear to greatest advantage in his portraits. The painter was the father of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst. | ||||||
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